The fact that it relies on patent medicine advertisements for a substantial portion of its revenue does not stop the Toronto Telegram, November 3, 1885 from warning its readers to shun such snake oil. Six patent medicine ads in this four-page issue included those for Putnam’s Painless Corn Extractor; Burdock Blood Bitters, which promise “the […]
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More papers than people in 1836
Almost 430,000 copies of newspapers were circulated in Upper Canada in 1836 among a population of 370,000, of whom it was claimed perhaps one in 50 could read, according to Anna Brownell Jameson in her celebrated travel book, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada. Despite their shortcomings, Jameson found the Upper Canada newspapers […]