Discussing Sacramento’s first daily newspaper which published its first edition on March 19, 1851
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- Опубліковано 18 бер 2024
- On March 19, 1851, the first edition of The Daily Union was published. The newspaper started out in response to the Placer Times and Sacramento Transcript cutting costs in their newspaper offices which cut wages for much of the employees. Many of he typesetters, reporters, and printers unionized and left to establish their own paper, hence the name The Daily Union. Dr. John Frederick Morse was the newspaper’s first editor. The first Union building was located on J Street between Front and Second Streets.
One of the most notable reporters for the Union was Mark Twain, who was hired in 1866. Twain convinced the newspaper to send him to Hawaii, where he dispatched 25 letters for eager Union readers. While having minor name changes over its lifetime, the Union was the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi and ran for 143 years until the Sacramento Union ceased publication on January 14, 1994.
In this video, Jared discusses the Union while letterpress printing its original name, The Daily Union in 15 line French Clarendon wood type. This type was made by the Hamilton Wood Type Company in the late 1880s. This was printed with green rubber base ink using our Washington hand press, which is a very similar press that would have been used to print the daily newspaper in the 1850s.
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I'm retired from the San Jose Mercury News, and I love newspaper history like this.
Another piece of fine history. It's always nice to hear history from your hometown or to educate others of it. Thank you Sir. Rock that Red Button Howard.
Sad that any business closes, but it seems this paper gave it one heck of a run! 🔴
Love watching these before work every day 🙂
Hooray, I'm finally early to a video
Over 150 years later the greatest event in history was held at the Doubletree hotel
Who's wanted, as it's written on the plank of wood ?
That’s not a plank of wood! That is tympan paper and that is just ink that has gotten on it by mistake while printing some wanted posters. We are likely replacing the tympan paper soon.
@@SacramentoHistoryMuseum I cannot wait anymore 😍
horray I'm in time after this person
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I feel like Howard would perfectly understand “stop recording Howard” it’s almost an insult to his intelligence saying “press the red button Howard” as if he doesn’t know what it even does…
I think at this point it’s a catchphrase that fans have come to expect and enjoy hearing 🙂
I sometimes replay the video and scroll to the end multiple times just to see the finished print AND to hear him say that phrase. I would be highly disappointed if he changed it 🥰
If Howard, at his age, didn't like something, he'd speak up about it.