September 25

Many people are in the habit of beginning their day with a cup of coffee while reading a newspaper. There was a time when that simply was not possible. On the 25th in 1690, Benjamin Harris produced the first multi-page newspaper in the American colonies. It was called Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick and promised to be published monthly, or, “if any Glut of Occurrences happen, oftener." This was a very ambitious undertaking for Mr. Harris. Unfortunately, the colonial governors were having none of it and Harris’s paper would never again see the light of day.