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Trans-Continental, Vol. 1, No. 1

Trans-Continental, Vol. 1, No. 1

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    24 May 1870

    25 cm x 18 cm

    Niagara Falls: [no publisher], 1870
    Published daily on the Pullman Hotel Express between Boston and San Francisco


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    [ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

    The Trans-Continental newspaper was published in 1870 on the Pullman Hotel Express from Boston to San Francisco, the first American transcontinental charter train. Editor W. R. Steele brought a printing press onboard and printed 12 issues between May and July. The paper's masthead read: "Let Every Step Be an Advance."