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United States, was published by John Campbell. He was postmaster at Boston. The position sounded high but the pay was low, and, being a Scot, he probably thought he could make a better living if he published a newspaper on the side. He kept his place as postmaster and gathered his news by talking with people who brought letters to mail or came to receive letters. Things went pretty well with the (first newspaper and John Campbell gave up hiji job as postmaster to devote himself to his paper.
The new postmaster was one William Brooker, and you know what he did : he started the second newspaper, The Boston Gazette, dated December 21, 1719, just 14 years after Mr. Campbell had started his paper.
As might be expected, Mr. Campbell failed to greet the rival paper with pleasure. He made some uncomplimentary remarks, in fact. One of them read something like this: “Its sheets smell stronger of beer than of midnight oil.”
To the present day, there is a wealth of information in that sentence. Printers burned midnight oil in those days, too; they did not greet their rivals kindly; and they were given to colorful language if the occasion demanded it. ,
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About the same time that the second paper appeared in Boston —with a date only one day later —a Philadelphia man, Andrew Bradford, started the American Weekly Mercury. He was the Philadelphia postmaster.
In November, 1949, a brother and sister started a paper in a county in Virginia. Their greatgrandmother was named Sophia Bradford. <She married a man named Newton Bowie.
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Jackie Barber, formerly printer at Rappahannock News but at present on Uncle Yarn’s pay-roll, got himself written up by a fellow in the Air Force. It was of interest to his fellow printers, back here in Virginia, that Jack still classes himself proudly as one trained by Raleigh T. Green at
Printers—and many who did not stick to the trade of ink and grease—saw a period of tutoring under the eccentric and gentle touch of “The Old Man,” as he was called by his family and those who worked for him. Raleigh Travers Green, late publisher of the 71-year-old Culpeper Exponent, began many a boy on the mysieries of printing.
(Since Jack Barber has so proudly claimed Mr. Green as his sire in the printing trade, it has been brought to light that many of the publishers and printers of northern Virginia began their training in the old Exponent building at Culpeper. James W. Green, publisher of The Orange Review, a
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