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The scourge.
American Periodicals Series Available from 08/10/1811 until 11/16/1811. Available online
View onlineNewsbank Early American Newspapers Series 1 Available from 08/10/1811 until 12/28/1811. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Series:
- American periodical series, 1800-1850.
- American periodicals series online, 1740-1900.
- Standardized Title:
- Scourge (Boston, Mass. : Online)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston (Mass.)--Newspapers.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Suffolk County (Mass.)--Newspapers.
- Suffolk County (Mass.).
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Massachusetts--Suffolk County.
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Newspapers.
- Physical Description:
- Irregular, Sept. 25-Dec. 28, 1811
- Vol. 1, no. 1 (Aug. 10, 1811)-v. 1, no. 16 (Dec. 28, 1811).
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : [M. Butler], 1811.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This comic periodical was edited by Merrill Butler, alias "Tim Touchstone," who was later sent to jail for libel. It was an off-spring of several British comic magazines of similar purpose and contained satire on politics and government, as well as biographical sketches, poetry, and literary notices. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF caption (Proquest, viewed Feb. 27, 2006).
- Editor: 1811, T. Touchstone (pseud.).
- Some issues published in more than one edition.
- ISSN:
- 2691-9559
- OCLC:
- 51669893
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