Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . arrison had a literary sense aswell as a compelling ethical ideal; he stead-fastly refused to call the paper about to beborn the Safety Lamp, as suggested by , insisting that there be given to it thebold and appropriate title of the first number of the epoch-making sheetappeared on Saturday, January 1, 1831. Evenfor that day of small things in the publishingline it was an unimpressive sheet, a folio of fourpages fourteen inches in length by nine andthree-tenths in width,
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . arrison had a literary sense aswell as a compelling ethical ideal; he stead-fastly refused to call the paper about to beborn the Safety Lamp, as suggested by , insisting that there be given to it thebold and appropriate title of the first number of the epoch-making sheetappeared on Saturday, January 1, 1831. Evenfor that day of small things in the publishingline it was an unimpressive sheet, a folio of fourpages fourteen inches in length by nine andthree-tenths in width, printed after hours inthe office of the Christian Exarniner in returnfor its proprietors services in the day first the title was in black-letter, but, atthe end of four months, this form was changed,and by 1850 an engraved head, which well * How much grit this required may be seen from the fact thata friend of Mays father condoled with the old gentleman in allseriousness next day, saying, I cannot tell you how much I pityyou; I hear your son went crazy at Church Green yesterday. TJTJi -:. j\a^vD3i, y 1 U,M ,.M s„ n , ,N V M. VM K < V 1 ? 1 1 B 1 1 , \o . 17. 11 , M ) III !?-. , \;.
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