. Some successful Americans . support. In December the annualspeech of the governor was printed by Andrew Bradford,the public printer, in a very slovenly and at once reprinted it, of course without pay, inthe very best manner possible, and sent a copy to each BENJAMIN FRANKLIN i8i member of the Assembly. The contrast in the work wasso great that Franklin secured the pubhc printing for thefollowing year. Through the excellence of their work thefirm was given the public printing for Delaware and NewJersey as well. Franklin, remembering his boyhood experience withthe New
. Some successful Americans . support. In December the annualspeech of the governor was printed by Andrew Bradford,the public printer, in a very slovenly and at once reprinted it, of course without pay, inthe very best manner possible, and sent a copy to each BENJAMIN FRANKLIN i8i member of the Assembly. The contrast in the work wasso great that Franklin secured the pubhc printing for thefollowing year. Through the excellence of their work thefirm was given the public printing for Delaware and NewJersey as well. Franklin, remembering his boyhood experience withthe New England Courant, planned to start a paper, butKeimer, learning of it,forestalled him andlate in 1728 issued thefirst number of theUniversal Instructor inAll Arts and Sciences,the Pennsylvania Ga-zette. It proved a losingventure, and when thethirty-ninth numberwas reached the paperwas sold to Franklin,who kept only the lat-ter part of the title,the Pennsylvania Ga-zette, He made it asemi-weekly paper fora time ; but there did. Franklin s Printing Press not seem to be a demand for such frequent publication, andit was soon made a weekly again. The semi-weekly edi-tion was the first published in America. The paper wasvery popular and its circulation reached from Virginia toNew York, being larger than any other paper in the coun-try. It was remarkable for its brilliant and original articles. 182 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS Franklin achieved this great success when he was onlytwenty-three years old. Franklins most successful publication was *Poor Rich-ards Almanac. It was begun in December, 1732, andcontinued for twenty-five years with an average sale of tenthousand copies, which was very remarkable when we con-sider the conditions at that time. The population of thecountry was small and widely scattered. The mail facilitiesamounted to but little. Nearly all the people were poor,and there was comparatively little reading done. Thealmanac became one of the most influential publicationsi
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