HomeMy WebLinkAbout468"Article copied from The Pickering News, August 20, 1940, page 1.
The First Issue of the
PICKERING NEWS
Every newspaper office has its files. In most offices a copy of each issue is filed away
and when the fifty-two issues are complete, they are bound and go into the archives.
The Pickering News, for some reason other had not filed the first two years,
consequently we have never had that privilege of exhibiting OUR FIRST ISSUE.
This summer there passed away an old citizen, of Pickering Township,
an elderly lady who had made a practice of preserving original papers and volumes.
Other members of the family, some time after the passing of their sister,
were re-arranging certain of the deceased's effects, and found placed away,
in a trunk, with other papers a copy of the first issue of this publication,
Vol. 1. Issue No. 1. Nov. 11th, 1881. published that year by W. H. Higgins,
for the publishers. The present publisher, who has been with this paper for forty-six years,
is greatly indebted to Mrs. T. C. Brown for the gift of this copy which we prize a great
deal. For any of our friends who may care to see that copy we have hung same for a
while in our windows here.
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