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January 9, 1864
Springfield Weekly Republican
Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
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Samuel Wilkinson praises the Springfield Republican newspaper's quality and elegance in a speech at a Washington press dinner for Speaker Colfax last week.
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A Compliment to The Republican.
At the press dinner to Speaker Colfax at Washington, last week, Mr. Samuel Wilkinson, the head of the New York Times' corps of correspondents, and formerly of the Tribune and Albany Evening Journal, presided and introduced the guest of the occasion. His speech opened with a running notice of the favorite sheets in a pile of 'exchanges,' and included this kind mention of The Republican, which, like 'praise from Sir Hubert,' is praise indeed:
'Perhaps the sixth take out of this mass shall have to be explicative. For it is the Springfield, Mass., Republican that is wanted, and Bowles in quarto is small; but his paper is the resume of the news of New England, and the only Journal in the world that I know, of which it can be said that there is not a line in it but what can be read with profit and pleasure, or gazed at with envious enjoyment for the artistic elegance of its typography and arrangement. I never lay a copy of the beauty down that is not easily marred with scissors.'
At the press dinner to Speaker Colfax at Washington, last week, Mr. Samuel Wilkinson, the head of the New York Times' corps of correspondents, and formerly of the Tribune and Albany Evening Journal, presided and introduced the guest of the occasion. His speech opened with a running notice of the favorite sheets in a pile of 'exchanges,' and included this kind mention of The Republican, which, like 'praise from Sir Hubert,' is praise indeed:
'Perhaps the sixth take out of this mass shall have to be explicative. For it is the Springfield, Mass., Republican that is wanted, and Bowles in quarto is small; but his paper is the resume of the news of New England, and the only Journal in the world that I know, of which it can be said that there is not a line in it but what can be read with profit and pleasure, or gazed at with envious enjoyment for the artistic elegance of its typography and arrangement. I never lay a copy of the beauty down that is not easily marred with scissors.'
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Newspaper Praise
Speech
Journalism
Typography
New England News
What entities or persons were involved?
Samuel Wilkinson
Speaker Colfax
Bowles
Where did it happen?
Washington
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Key Persons
Samuel Wilkinson
Speaker Colfax
Bowles
Location
Washington
Event Date
Last Week
Story Details
At a press dinner to Speaker Colfax in Washington last week, Samuel Wilkinson presided and in his speech praised the Springfield, Mass., Republican newspaper as the resume of New England news, with every line readable with profit and pleasure, and admired for its artistic elegance in typography and arrangement.