Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . of the century in stimulated newspaper enterprise throughout the entire country, and jour-nals multiplied enormously. The era practically ended with the outbreakof the Civil War in 1861, which event caused a rise in the price of paper,a demand for expensive correspondence, telegraph
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . of the century in stimulated newspaper enterprise throughout the entire country, and jour-nals multiplied enormously. The era practically ended with the outbreakof the Civil War in 1861, which event caused a rise in the price of paper,a demand for expensive correspondence, telegraph news and battle scenes,and a consequent necessity for enlarged and quadrupled sheets. Many ofthe penny papers went up to a five-cent price under the stimulus of warexcitement, the improved system of collecting news, and the added expenseof publication. This era of phenomenal newspaper expansion extended evento the end of the century. It has witnessed the wonderful evolution ofthe newspaper in all its modern phases, — the advent of the Sunday news-paper ; the growth of the daily sheet to mammoth proportions; the incor-poration of the Associated Press, with its thousands of agents in even-part of the country gathering and sending the mhmtest events of the day ;. OSEPH MEDILL. Chicago - tH HI U» m i
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