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Title: America's oldest daily newspaper. The New York Globe
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Globe and commercial advertiser, New York
Subjects: Globe and commercial advertiser New York (N.Y.)
Publisher: (New York)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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the hurry of a daily paper is an apology for this & a suf-ficient one in a paper which contains from 7 to 9 columns in longprimer & brevier everyday. I am disappointed in my partner—hehas not talents to conduct the business & I am obliged to hire acorrector lately. The paper is now as correct as any paper—& thewhole business bids fair to answer our wishes. But I have enduredmore drudgery, & suffered more anxiety on acct of the bad exe-cution of the paper than perhaps ever fell to the lot of man in thesame time; partly from the difficulties attending a new business,with the types & raw hands, & partly from the inability of Bunce.We are getting over these difficulties & I trust the paper will re-cover its reputation. DISAGREEMENT WITH BUNCE. In view of the contents of this letter, it is not surprising that thepartnership between Webster and Bunce was dissolved. By an agreementwhich was dated Feb. 10, 1796, and took effect April 30 of that year, Web- 6
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ster purchased the third interest held by Bunce for $3,000. On May 2 thenext issue after the agreement took effect, the paper appeared under thenew title. The Minerva and Mercantile Evening Advertiser. This was not,however, the first change in title. On Dec. 23, 1793, the word The hadbeen dropped and on March 19, 1794, there had been added to the titleAnd The New York (Evening) Advertiser. This addition had been shortenedon May 6, 1795, to And Evening Advertiser. One of the firm, Joseph Dudley Webb, proved to be such a continuedsource of disturbance that after May 13, 1797, the enterprise was con-ducted by Webster and Hopkins. The details of this controversy will befound in the Webster MSS., to which reference has already been made.Because of legal difficulties and other dissensions, Webster and Hopkinsdecided on not only a change in name, but also a change in the numberingof volumes. The result was The Commercial Advertiser, which, while con-tinuing The Minerva both in advertising an

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