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Book Title: Historical And Descriptive Sketch Of Sonoma County, California

THE FIRST NEWSPAPER.

   The Sonoma Bulletin.—Sonoma county made a clever start in its newspaper
history. The Sonoma Bulletin was established in the town of Sonoma in 1850 by A.
J. Cox. It was a very lively sheet for several years, and would have done credit
to a much later period in the history of the State. Contributions from the
inimitable Derby and other army officers stationed at Sonoma, were not
infrequent in its columns.

   The paper was continued at intervals up to 1855, when the editor, in a
characteristic notice in the Petaluma Journal of September 15, 1855, announces
its final demise as follows: " Hon. Q. Smikes wishes to return his thanks to the
editorial fraternity for the kind notices of his debut, and to the public
generally (the rest of mankind included) for their liberal patronage, and to
announce that the Blunderbuss has dried up." Of Mr. Cox's newspaper experience
more will be said hereafter.



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HISTORICAL
AND
DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH
OF
SONOMA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
BY
ROBERT A. THOMPSON,
EDITOR OF "THE SONOMA DEMOCRAT."
PHILADELPHIA:
L. H. EVERTS & CO. 
1877.


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