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2 unusual facts about Samuel Keimer


Pennsylvania Gazette

The newspaper was first published in 1728 by Samuel Keimer and was the second newspaper to be published in Pennsylvania under the name The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette, alluding to Keimer's intention to print out a page of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in each copy.

Samuel Keimer

In 1712 Andrew Bradford was the first person to start a printing business in Philadelphia.



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