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Rh agement," and went to Bangor, where he brought out The Bangor Weekly Register November 25, 1815, and "could make out to live if nothing more." Like his father, B. Edes, of The Boston Gazette, P. Edes failed to secure popular support, possibly because he was too ardent a Federalist. With the issue of August 23, 1817, Edes ceased to bring out a paper and sold his plant to James Burton, who on March 7, 1817, had started The Augusta Patriot, but who had evidently failed to make the paper a successful venture. Burton, however, did not resume the publication of The Bangor Weekly Register until December 25, 1817. The space that Edes had used to advocate a separation of Maine from Massachusetts, Burton employed to advertise lottery tickets. The Bangor Register lasted until August 2, 1881.

Possibly The Tocsin, established at Hallo well in 1795 by Thomas B. Wait, Howard S. Robinson, and John K. Baker, may have antedated The Kennebeck Intelligencer, but little is known of this newspaper save that it had a short life. Incidentally, it may be remarked that it was too much to expect a Maine newspaper at this period to support three men.

The first daily newspaper in that State, however, was The Courier established in Portland in 1829 by Selba Smith, the original Jack Downing of "Jack Downing Letters" fame. The second was The Portland Daily Advertiser, first issued regularly as a daily in 1831, having as its first editor, James Brooks, who later founded The Express in New York City. Its most distinguished editor was James G. Blaine, who used journalism as a stepping-stone to politics. The first morning daily in Portland was The Times brought out in 1836 by Charles P. Ilsley.

Although Kentucky was first organized as a part of Virginia, it had its eyes upon admission as a State by the time the Federal Constitution was being adopted. To promote its admission, Lexington, at that time the most important town, voted in July, 1786, a free lot to John Bradford, a Virginia planter who had come to Kentucky after the War of the Revolution. On the site given him by the town of Lexington,