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Source? It's not at all obvious given that it dates back to at least the days of newspapers.
by gruez 7mo ago
Source? It's not at all obvious given that it dates back to at least the days of newspapers.
- wizzwizz4 7mo agoThe classified ads section in a newspaper is valuable, and you can discard it. (If you meant ads stuffed around articles: yes, that annoys me, but I'm also not familiar enough with the papers that do that to name one.)
- 52-6F-62 7mo agoThe newspaper ads looking to capture my escaped ancestors who stole some shoes and ran away from their indenturement for Canada. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2013/05/advertising-in-america/ https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2013/05/advertising-in-... If you are looking for one canonical, authoritative source to declare something absolutely for you, you will never find it. No such thing exists for any matter. That is a myth of the internet and people raised on it.
- gruez 7mo ago>If you are looking for one canonical, authoritative source to declare something absolutely for you, you will never find it Even if we treat your source as canonical and authoritative, , it doesn't answer the question I was asking. It only answers a slightly different question of "what was the first instance of a paid advertisement in an American newspaper?", which obviously is going to be American. >But did you know that the first time a paid advertisement appeared in an American newspaper it happened here in Boston?
- 52-6F-62 7mo agoI don't owe you anything here.