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CHAPTER V. NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING FORESHADOWED—ITS EARLIEST USE—HOUGHTON’S LESSONS.
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Mercurius , which was issued more than two hundred years ago, showed great
interest in English affairs, especially with regard to the Civil War. It was much inclined to the
Royal cause; and when in 1653 Cromwell assumed supreme power, the above was issued as a title,
and purported to show the various events which had recently passed in Great Britain.