Reminiscences Of Editors Reporters And Printers During The Last Sixty Years With A Portrait

Author : Andrew Aird
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331917793
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Editors, Reporters, and Printers written by Andrew Aird and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Editors, Reporters, and Printers: During the Last Sixty Years Sixty years ago the Glasgow Herald was the most popular newspaper in Glasgow, and still continues to be so. It was originally started in 1782, under the title of the Advertiser, and was issued once a week, on Mondays; it became a bi-weekly in 1792, and was issued on Mondays and Fridays at the price of sevenpence per copy. In 1802 it changed its name to that of Herald and Advertiser; a few years later it dropped the title of Advertiser and became known as the Glasgow Herald, and was sold at fourpence halfpenny. On the repeal of the stamp duty in 1855 it became a tri-weekly, and was published at threepence per copy, and in 1859 it became a daily paper, published at one penny. Its centenary was held on 27th January, 1882. The Weekly Herald was commenced in 1864. When I went to the printing business, the Herald's premises were situated at the north-west corner of Bell Street and Candleriggs, rather an unpretentious newspaper office, but not so humble as was its first one in the Saltmarket, the rent of which was £5 per annum! At that time its editor was Mr Samuel Hunter. He was well liked as an editor. He never was bumptious, kept his mind in moderation, was very sagacious, and balanced his political creed so well that in the bi-weekly issues of his paper he would be pleasing Toryism or Whigism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.