From Deseret News archives:

News observes 155th birthday

Published: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:26 p.m. MDT
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The Deseret Morning News, the oldest registered business in Utah and one of the West's oldest newspapers, quietly celebrated its 155th birthday Wednesday.

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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