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A HISTORY OF THE PRESS OF MICHIGAN PREPARED FOR THE CENTENNIAL BY ORDER OF GOV. JOHN J. BAGLEY
TOM S. APPLEGATE, COMPILER
Section II
In September, 1869, the students of Michigan University commenced the publication of The Chronicle. It is continued fortnightly.
The School, an educational monthly, issued at Ypsilanti, was started in January, 1872. C. F. R. Bellows & Co. are the present proprietors.
WAYNE COUNTY
Wayne county has a population of 144, 903, and the compiler has received
returns from twenty-two publications in the city and county, exclusive of the reports from the daily journals.
To-Wayne county belongs the honor of having given birth to the first paper ever printed in Michigan. It was called Essaie du Michigan ou Observateur Impartial (Michigan Essay or Impartial Observer), and was first issued August 31, 1809, by Father Gabriel Richard, the Roman Catholic priest in charge of the parish, James M. Miller being the printer. It was printed mainly in French,. but had an English department, and was devoted to news and the discussion of current topics. It issued only eight or nine numbers, , when it ceased to exist for want of patronage.
As near as can now be ascertained, Detroit was without a paper, after the death just chronicled, until July 25, 1817, when The Detroit Gazette was born, Sheldon & Reed being the projectors. It was a four-paged weekly, three pages being printed in English, and one in French. This ends the material "at the disposal of the compiler, regarding the early history of the Wavne county press, and he now proceeds to note the living papers of the city and county, as near as may be, in the order in which they were established.
THE PRESS OF MICHIGAN
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