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Stilson Hutchins:
On December 6, 1877, journalist Stilson Hutchins began publishing a new "Democratic daily" at 914 Pennsylvania Ave. Its name: The Washington Post. It had four pages and cost 3 cents. The Post solicited "correspondence on live topics" but "to have attention, must be brief" and offered to pay for valuable news items. Hutchins later sold the newspaper to pursue his interest in the hot new technology -- the Linotype machine. The Post was sold again in a bankruptcy auction in 1933 to financier Eugene Meyer, whose daughter, Katharine Graham, and grandson, Donald Graham, later served as publishers. The newspaper occupied several sites along the avenue before moving to its current location on 15th Street, NW in 1972.
"The Post, which has sometimes been very naughty, has always been enterprising and is the first real newspaper Washington ever had."
-- The Philadelphia Times, 1878
1880:
"The view of the Capitol down the Avenue is becoming obscured by telegraph wires."
-- Joaquin Miller, 1883
President Cleveland's Inauguration:
1885: Grover Cleveland, the first Democrat to be elected president in nearly 30 years, watched his inaugural parade from a flag-draped grandstand outside the White House. |