Looking at some mid 19th-century newspapers today, it's amazing what people used to sell.
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Excellent fonts and layouts, and what was being sold for decades thereafter was neat to say the least.
The advertising has way better fonts & layouts than the actual news, though. In 1840s Newfoundland (where I'm looking at the papers from) they hadn't figured out to put titles before articles yet. I don't know when titles became a thing.
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