The Beagletarians got a hold of an actual newspaper the other day, and boy does that take some of us who remember newspapers back. Dag. It seems like only yesterday when the redcoats came to quell the Boston rebellion and Benjamin Edes carried his printing press and typefaces alone under cover of darkness down to the Charles River to a ready boat and rowed to the other side, where he managed to put out a makeshift paper on lumpy paper with gunky ink, but died bitter at President John Adams -- his partner in the radical days -- who got the Sedition Act jammed through. Edes shut down the Boston Gazette, took his printing press home, and set and re-set type in his parlor just for grins until 1797.
The paper we got to see with our hands is the Julesburg Advocate, which boasts "You won't see a newspaper like THIS every day...Just once a week."
One of the stories they were catching up on (below a photograph of a Cat in the Hat readalong) was the disturbing news that shopkeepers and newshandlers all over Julesburg, Ovid, and Sedgwick found like 50 cents in the tray for $20 worth of newspapers the day the last Rocky Mountain News came out. If CSI were here, they could trace it down to the swap meets and rummage sales all over the county.
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