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y separately published work icon Commercial Journal and General Advertiser newspaper  
Alternative title: Commercial Journal, General Advertiser and Odd Fellows' Advocate
Date: 1845
Date: 1845 Note: An editor's name is absent from the colophon from Volume 1, Number 10 (7 May, 1845). Subsequent issues may have been edited by Richard Thompson.
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 Commercial Journal and General Advertiser
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

G. B. Barton in Literature in New South Wales (1866): 44, describes the newspaper as '[v]ery well printed and edited, but not successful.'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1845
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: W. Jones , 1845 .
      Link: U23211Web resource Digital copy of print publication via Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845.
      Note/s:
      • Colophon: 'Edited, Printed and Published ... by the Proprietor, William Jones, No. 17 Colonnade, Bridge-street, Sydney.' (Vol. 1 no. 1, 5 April 1845). From 7 May 1845 no editor is named. William Jones is named as printer, publisher and proprietor. From 5 July 1845 Jones is named as printer and publisher only.
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Continues the Commercial Journal and General Advertiser. A prospectus for the Examiner was issued 5 August 1845 announcing the demise of the Commercial Journal and General Advertiser and the 'intention of raising ... another periodical to be styled the Examiner... Mr Richard Thompson is retained to conduct the Editorial deparment, and Mr. Reading to be printer.'

Source: 'The Press', The Morning Chronicle (6 August 1845): 3.
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PeriodicalNewspaper Details

ISSN: 1440-1924
Frequency:
Twice weekly. Published every Wednesday morning and Saturday afternoon changed to Wednesday and Saturday mornings from vol. 1 no. 3, 12 April 1845
Range:
Vol. 1 no. 1 (5 April) 1845 - vol. 1 no. 35 (2 August 1845)
Continues:
Sydney Free Press (1841-1842)
Continued by:
The Examiner: Political, Literary and Commercial Journal (1845)
Price:
Six shillings and sixpence per quarter in Sydney and seven shillings and sixpence per quarter out of Sydney
Advertising:
2s, 6d per one inch of space; 1s for each succeeding inch.
Note:
Motto: 'Where truth and justice lead'
Note:
Ferguson no. 3193
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