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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Old ships and ship-building days of Medford. (search)
the occasion of the death of President Garfield. In 1880 Mr. Morss had a competitor in the journalistic field, Mr. Samuel W. Lawrence, who began the publication of the Medford Mercury, with William E. Smythe as local editor, who was succeeded by Gtson, who thus continued until 1902. The Mercury's first issue was of December 18, 1880. Somewhat over a year later, Mr. Lawrence purchased the Chronicle's interests and merged it with the Mercury. Mr. Wilber (in the article to be alluded to) tein 1901, whether conscious of it or not, the Mercury had attained its majority age of twenty-one years. Its publisher, Mr. Lawrence, then retired from the journalistic field and sold to John F. Wood, who had a brother, Charles. Both were expert in tss in Boston. Also, in 1905, the Mercury issued a Twenty-fifth Anniversary number, dating from its establishment by Mr. Lawrence, and not from that of the Chronicle of 1872, whose interest and good will it had acquired by purchase. William Preb