Sunday Mercury (New York)
Weekly newspaper in New York City / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sunday Mercury (1839–1896) (sometimes referred to as the New York Sunday Mercury) was a weekly Sunday newspaper published in New York City that grew to become the highest-circulation weekly newspaper (at least by its own claims) in the United States at its peak.[1] It was known for publishing and popularizing the work of many notable 19th-century writers, including Charles Farrar Browne and Robert Henry Newell, and was the first Eastern paper to publish Mark Twain.[2] It was also the first newspaper to provide regular coverage of baseball, and was popular for the extensive war correspondence from soldiers it published during the Civil War.
Type | Weekly newspaper (1839–1893) Daily (1893–1896) |
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Format | broadsheet |
Founded | 1839 |
Ceased publication | 1896 |
Headquarters | Manhattan |
Circulation | 145,000 (1861) |
OCLC number | 9588307 |