Philadelphia Aurora
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The Philadelphia Aurora (originally the Aurora General Advertiser) was a newspaper, published six days a week in Philadelphia from 1794 to 1824. The paper was founded by Benjamin Franklin Bache, and was continued as a tri-weekly, after his death from yellow fever in September 1798, as a leading organ of radical republicanism by the Irish-American journalist William Duane.[1][2]
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Founder(s) | Benjamin Franklin Bache |
Editor | William Duane (1798–1822) |
Founded | October 1, 1790 (1790-10-01) (as General Advertiser, and Political, Commercial, Agricultural and Literary Journal) |
Political alignment | Radical republicanism |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | 1824 (1824) |
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Country | United States |
OCLC number | 88155826 |
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