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Newspaper - The Columbian Centennial
-The Massachusetts Centennial: and the Republican Journal. Mar. 24 - Oct. 13, 1784. - The Massachusetts Centennial. Oct. 16, 1784 - June 12, 1790. - Columbian Centennial. June 6, 1790 - Oct. 2, 1799. - Columbian Centennial and Massachusetts Federalist. Oct. 5, 1799 - July 2, 1800. - Columbian Centennial. Massachusetts Federalist. July 5 - Dec. 31, 1800.
1784 – 1800
Brown paper newspaper section. 16" x 10 1/2". 4 columns.
The Columbian Centinel (1700-1840) was a Boston, Massachusetts newspaper established by Benjamin Russel. It continued its predecessor the Massachusetts Centinel and the Republican Journal, which Russel and partner William Warden had first on March 24, 1784. The paper was "the most influential and enterprising paper Massachusetts after the Revolution." In the Federalist Era, it was aligned with Federalist sentiment. Until c. 1800 its circulation was the largest in Boston, and its closest competitor was the anti-Federalist Independent Chronicle ("the compliments that were frequently exchanged by the journalistic actuaries were more forcibly turn polite").
Russell "can be justly characterized as "he Horace Greeley of his time." In 1828 Russell sold the Centinel to Joseph T. Adams and Thomas Hudson, who continued publishing it. In 1840, the Centinal merged with a number of other Boston papers - the Independent Chronicle & Boston Patriot, the Boston Commercial Gazette, and the New England Palladium - to form the Boston Semi-weekly Advertiser which eventually became the Boston Herald.
The Columbian Centinel (1700-1840) was a Boston, Massachusetts newspaper established by Benjamin Russel. It continued its predecessor the Massachusetts Centinel and the Republican Journal, which Russel and partner William Warden had first on March 24, 1784. The paper was "the most influential and enterprising paper Massachusetts after the Revolution." In the Federalist Era, it was aligned with Federalist sentiment. Until c. 1800 its circulation was the largest in Boston, and its closest competitor was the anti-Federalist Independent Chronicle ("the compliments that were frequently exchanged by the journalistic actuaries were more forcibly turn polite").
Russell "can be justly characterized as "he Horace Greeley of his time." In 1828 Russell sold the Centinel to Joseph T. Adams and Thomas Hudson, who continued publishing it. In 1840, the Centinal merged with a number of other Boston papers - the Independent Chronicle & Boston Patriot, the Boston Commercial Gazette, and the New England Palladium - to form the Boston Semi-weekly Advertiser which eventually became the Boston Herald.
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