News observes 155th birthday
The newspaper printed its first edition on a small hand press in the adobe territorial mint building in Salt Lake City on June 15, 1850. That first edition included some 300 copies with eight pages each. Willard Richards was the newspaper's founding editor.
In that first edition of the "News," the U.S. Senate was debating the "dissolution of the Union." A "terrible fire" in San Francisco had done millions of dollars in property damage.
And "flour, wheat, corn meal, butter, cheese, tallow and pork" could be exchanged for copies of "the News" at the paper's office.
The paper has weathered 12 different homes and myriad technological changes while covering world, national and neighborhood news for 15 1/2 decades.
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142 - Bronco collecting a galaxy of recruits
141 - Jazz talking Boozer trade?
136 - Blazers may offer Millsap a contract
123 - Stadium of Fire flag burning was fake
94 - Jazz brass debate Millsap match
88 - Fairness of BCS debated
81 - Chaffetz eyes challenging Bennett
74 - Letters: Single-payer system best
72 - Services bids farewell to Jackson
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