Baltimore Gazette
| Type | Daily newspaper (formerly) |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | William Wilkins Glenn, Frank Key Howard, and William H. Carpenter (formerly) |
| Founder(s) | Edward F. Carter and William H. Neilson (formerly) |
| Founded | October 7, 1862 |
| Ceased publication | December 31, 1875 |
| Relaunched | Some time in 2016 (as a fake news site) |
| City | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Country | United States |
The Baltimore Gazette, also known as the Baltimore Daily Gazette and The Gazette, was a daily newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland between 1862 and 1875.[1][2]
The paper was associated with several high-profile figures in publishing and politics, including William Hinson Cole and William Wilkins Glenn.
On June 1, 1827, an earlier Baltimore Gazette broke the news that the Turk, allegedly a chess playing machine, worked because a human chess master was operating it from the inside.[3][4]
In 2016, the title was revived for a fake news website.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "About the Baltimore Gazette". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Baltimore; its history and its people". archive.org. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ Allen, George (1859). "The history of the automaton chess-player in America. A letter addressed to William Lewis Esq., London". The Book of the First American Chess Congress: Containing the Proceedings of that Celebrated Assemblage, held in New York, in the Year 1857. By Fiske, Daniel Willard. New York: Rudd & Carleton. pp. 451–452 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Cook, James W. (Winter 1995). "From the Age of Reason to the Age of Barnum: The Great Automaton Chess-Player and the Emergence of Victorian Cultural Illusionism". Winterthur Portfolio. 30 (4). University of Chicago Press: 253. JSTOR 4618515.
- ^ Brandon Weigel (September 23, 2016). "Someone revived the Baltimore Gazette to spread fake news". City Paper.