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Title: Philadelphia to-day, 1882. Being a correct guide to all the public buildings, institutions, railroads and places and objects of interest ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Ryan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n U 331 North Third Street. Corn Exchange « Second and Chestnut Streets. Eighth U Second St. and Girard Avenue. Farmers and Mechanics It 427 Chestnut Street. First ft 319 Chestnut Street. Germantown . M 4800 Germantown Avenue. Girard .... it 120 South Third Street. Kensington li 969 Reach Street. Keystone l( 1328 Chestnut Street. Manayunk State 4371 Main Street. Manufacturers National Third Street above Market. Mechanics . 22 South Third Street. Merchants Exchange State Third and Dock Streets. North America National 307 Chestnut Street. Northern Liberties u Third and Vine Streets. Penn .... <( Vine and Sixth Streets. Peoples State 435 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia . National 423 Chestnut Street. Republic « Chestnut Street above Third. Security u Seventh St. and Girard Avenue. Second .... it 4434 Frankford Avenue. Seventh .... tt Fourth and Market Streets. Sixth .... u Second and Pine Streets. Spring Garden State Ridge Avenue and Spring Garden. Shackamaxon n 1737 Frankford Avenue.
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38 PHILADELPHIA TO-DAY. Southwark Third . Tradesmens . Twenty-second Ward Union Western West Philadelphia National Second and South Streets. Broad and Market Streets. 113 South Third Street. 4850 Germantown Avenue. Third and Arch Streets. 408 Chestnut Street.State 3839 Market Street NEWSPAPERS. It will ever be mentioned as a fact most honorable to the intelli-gence of the first colonists of this country, and regard for the welfareof their posterity, that among their earliest cares they provided forthe interests of education and the diffusion of knowledge. In 1638,at Cambridge, Mass., was erected the first printing-press. The firstnewspaper published in the United States was at Boston, in 1690.The first newspaper published in Philadelphia was the AmericanWeekly Mercury, in 1*719. Philadelphia has the honor of producingthe first daily paper in America—the Pennsylvania Packet was is-sued in It83. First daily evening paper, Philadelphia Gazette, in1788. At the present time there are pub

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