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New York, New York

18691922

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The New York Sun debuted on September 3, 1833, becoming the first successful penny daily, popular with the city’s less affluent, working classes. Its publisher, Benjamin H. Day, emphasized local events, police court reports, and sports in his four-page morning newspaper. Advertisements, notably help-wanted ads, were plentiful. By 1834, the Sun had the largest circulation in the United States. Its rising popularity was attributed to its readers’ passion for the Sun's sensational and sometimes fabricated stories and the paper’s exaggerated coverage of sundry scandals. Its success was also the result of the efforts of the city’s ubiquitous newsboys, who the innovative Day had hired to hawk the paper. The Sun added a Saturday edition in 1836.  A number of weekly and semiweekly titles were also published, such as the Weekly Sun (1851-69), which shares the same masthead as the Sun with "Weekly" appearing in the title ornament.

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New York, New York

18691922

Source Information

New York Herald, 1869–1922 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2023. Last updated: January 11, 2023

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Archive Info

70,056

New York, New York

18691922

Source Information

New York Herald, 1869–1922 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2023. Last updated: January 11, 2023