newsagent

papers; a news vender. *news-book, s. A newspaper. New York however, a legend of a daily paper called the Post boy , in 1695. Cologne seems to have had a news paper as early as 1499, called the Chronicle ; and Frankfort claims as the father of journalism Egenolf Emmel, who, in 1615, is believed to have established a daily paper entitled Der Frankfurter Oberpostamt Zeitung . France's first newspaper, the Gazette de France , appeared May 30, 1631, Sweden's in 1644, Holland's in 1656, Ru ia's in 1703, Spain's in 1704. The first newspaper on the American side of the Atlantic, Publick Occurrences both Foreign and Do me stick , was a monthly, first i ued in Boston, Ma ., by Benjamin Harris, Sept. 25, 1690.