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Excerpt from Pettingill's Newspaper Directory and Gazetteer, 1903: Containing, a Complete Directory of the Newspapers and Periodicals Published in the United States, Showing the Name, Frequency of Issue and Day of Publication, Class, Year Established, Number and Size of Pages, Subscription Price, Publisher's Name Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that is carried hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost Star-eyed intelligence Clemmer. Carlyle first recognized the reality of an empire of daily printed thought and forged the name-plate of the fourth estate. Newspapers are the citizens of this realm and each year sees rapid growth and many changing conditions. This volume is' the official directory of this realm. It tells the names, and somewhat more, of its citizens. It gives their places of residence; it tells of their comings and goings. It is the newspaper history of a year condensed into a classified arrangement of facts! 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.