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"Boston News-Letter," the First "Successful" Newspaper in North America

4/24/1704
Extremely rare first number of The Boston News-Letter, April 24, 1704. From the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Extremely rare first number of The Boston News-Letter, April 24, 1704. From the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society

The Boston News-Letter began publication, o April 24, 1704, edited and published by John Campbell, a bookseller and postmaster of Boston. This was the first “successful” newspaper in the North American colonies.

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