A New Penny Publication . . . 152 Years Later
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Our friends at Findmypast dug this out for us, via the British Newspaper Archive.
It’s a little hard to read, so here’s what it says:
NEW PENNY PUBLICATION
WILL CONTAIN
ORIGINAL TALES, POETRY, ESSAYS, ARTICLES ON DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT, GARDENING, SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS, LITERARY EXTRACTS, AMUSING VARIETIES, NOTES TO CORRESPONDENTS &C
And subsequent Numbers will be published on
THE FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH
And still 152 years on from the “first number” of our penny publication we bring out a new issue of “The People’s Friend” every Wednesday.
There are perhaps fewer “scientific jottings” these days . . . but our readers can expect a lot more than sixteen pages, at least!