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204 reckoned with and men who, in addition to winning prominence in the political field, saw the business side of life, and the necessity for developing it. The promptness with which they started paper-mills and type foundries was evidence that the printers were not content to be merely the mental feeders of the new country.

The Pittsburgh Gazette recently celebrated its one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary. On that occasion it printed the names of the papers which antedated it and which, at that time, were still in existence,—a notable list:

The Courant, Hartford, Conn., 1764 The Connecticut Herald and Weekly Journal, New Haven, 1766 The Chronicle, Augusta, Ga., 1785 The Advertiser, Portland, Maine, 1785 The Maryland Gazette, Annapolis, 1745 The American, Baltimore, 1773 The Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass., 1786 The Register and Mercury, Salem, Mass., 1768 The Journal, Elizabeth, N. J., 1779 The Gazette, Hudson, N. Y., 1785 The Eagle, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1785 The Philadelphia North American, 1728 The Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, 1728 The Mercury, Newport, R. I., 1758 The News and Courier, Charleston, S. C, 1732 The Journal, Windsor, Vt., 1783 The Gazette, Alexandria, Va., 1780 The New Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, 1756

The second paper west of the Alleghanies was established in Kentucky as a political necessity. Kentucky was then a part of Virginia, and there was an earnest movement on foot to separate it from the mother state. At a convention held in Danville in 1785, it was resolved that "to insure unanimity in the opinion of the people,