The Missouri Whig and General Advertiser, the state’s oldest continuously published newspaper, hits newsstands in Palmyra on this date in 1839. The paper is now called the Palmyra Spectator.
Photo credit: Hine, Lewis Wickes, photographer. Newsies.Location: St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis United States Missouri, 1910. May. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018675680/.
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