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Today in History: The Toledo Blade
Today is the 170th anniversary of The Toledo Blade. Back on December 19, 1835, the first issue of The Blade was published in Toledo, Ohio. The Blade's history page explains that
it is the oldest continuing business in Toledo, Ohio, USA. In fact, it is older than the city itself. The city was not incorporated until 1837.
During the Civil War, David Ross Locke brought The Blade to national prominence writing satires under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby on topics including slavery and temperance. The influence of Locke was significant, with President Lincoln himself reading the Nasby satires. And in 2004, The Blade won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the series "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths," reporting on atrocities in the Vietnam War.
You can check out today's online version of the Toledo Blade, and the Libraries have several books by David Ross Locke including collections of his Nasby writings.
— michael | December 19, 2005 08:38 AM | I found it online
