Newspaper reporting in olden time and to-day / by John Pendleton.

  • Pendleton, John.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Newspaper reporting in olden time and to-day / by John Pendleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    payment, Nathaniel Butter secured news for his paper, and much of it was more sensational even than can be found in some modern journals. Here, for instance, are two remarkable paragraphs that appeared in a seventeenth-century newspaper :— “A true relation of the strange appear- ance of a man-fish about three miles within the river Thames, having a musket in one hand and a petition in the other, credibly reported by six sailors, who both saw and talked with the monster.” “ A perfect mermaid was, by the last great wind, driven ashore near Greenwich, with her comb in one hand and her looking-glass in the other. She seemed to be of the countenance of a most fair and beautiful woman, with her arms crossed, weeping out many pearly drops of salt tears; and afterwards she, gently turning herself upon her back again, swam away without being seen any more.”