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was " Salom Advertiser ami Argus;" after ay liicli tlic word 

 Ai-gus was omitted. 



ISo many persons were connected with the Advertiser, at 

 various times, as editors and publishers, that we must mention 

 them brieflj. During the proprietorship of Mr. Woodbury, 

 Mr. Wm. B. Pike served as editor for about six weeks from 

 Oct. 17, 1838. Mr. Henry Blaney served two terms as pro- 

 prietor, first, from March 11, 1840, until Oct. 16, 1841 ; and 

 again from June 21, 1843, until Sept. 11, 1844. Benj. 

 Kingsbury, jr. Esq., now of Portland, Avas editor during the 

 political campaign of 1840. Edward Palfray took a second turn 

 of two years, between Mr. Blaney's two periods. H. C. Hobart, 

 Esq., and F. C. Crowninshield, were the editors during the 

 campaign of 1844. Mr. Hobart afterwards went to Wisconsin, 

 and became Speaker of the Assembly. Mr. Crowninshield en- 

 listed for the Mexican Avar, and Avas lieutenant of a company. 

 Messrs. Varney, Parsons & Co. Avere the next publishers, from 

 1844, Nov. 20, to 1845, Dec. 31, and were succeeded by 

 Messrs. Perley and Parsons, Mr. Varney having gone to the 

 war as a corporal. The final publisher was Mr. Eben N. 

 Walton, Avho began Feb. 15, 1847, and continued to the end. 

 Mr. Woodbury, an earlier editor, and once Postmaster here, 

 Avas the third one who went to the Avar. He was drowned on 

 his Avay back. Before he came to Salem he published the 

 Gloucester Democrat. EdAvard Palfray, the projector of the 

 paper, and the person Avho Avas longest editor of it, died at the 

 Worcester Hospital, in 1846, April 14, aged 41. He was a 

 spirited and forcible writer, a zealous democrat and a kind 

 hearted man. 



21. Saturday Evening Bulletin. This was the title 

 of a small neutral paper, published weekly, by Palfray & Cook, 

 at the Advertiser office. Price $1. It continued for one year, 

 from May 18, 1833, Avhen it Avas relinquished in fiivor of a 

 political journal. It was edited by Nicholas Devereux, Esq. 



22. The Constitutionalist. This was the political 

 journal which followed the Bulletin. Its publishers were the 

 same. It was a small Aveekly. It sustained Marcus Morton 

 for Governor, and Joseph S. Cabot for congress. The duration 

 of this paper Avas from June 28, 1834 until the close of the 

 year— a little more than six months. 



23. The Landmark. In 1834, Aug. 20, a semi-weekly 

 paper, entitled '^ The Landmark," of goodly size and elegant 

 typography, sent out its first number from a new printing 



