New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . r branches of useful litera-ture as hereafter, upon experiment, maybe found within the compassand means of the insdtution usefully to teach. February 12, 1812,a charter was granted, signed by Governor Elbridge Gerry. Thepresent building was dedicated May 7, 1857, and three years after itwas enlarged and remodelled. It has always been an excellentschool. It present master is Thomas H. Eckfeldt. The attention of the visitors was called to the newspapers ofthe city. The New Bedford Mercury, a weekly newspaper, was
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . r branches of useful litera-ture as hereafter, upon experiment, maybe found within the compassand means of the insdtution usefully to teach. February 12, 1812,a charter was granted, signed by Governor Elbridge Gerry. Thepresent building was dedicated May 7, 1857, and three years after itwas enlarged and remodelled. It has always been an excellentschool. It present master is Thomas H. Eckfeldt. The attention of the visitors was called to the newspapers ofthe city. The New Bedford Mercury, a weekly newspaper, was establishedin 1807 by Benjamin Lindsey, who had previously worked as com-positor and foreman in the printing office of the Palladium, in was a small sheet of sixteen columns, printed on good paper andin fair type, and the subscription price was two dollars annually. Inhis address to the public the editor stated that it was his wish andintention to publish a useful and, as far as resources would permit,an entertaining journal. In politics it proposed to adopt the truly.
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