id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1107 History of American newspapers - Wikipedia .html text/html 21681 1557 62 These pioneer papers, poorly written, poorly printed, and partisan often beyond all reason, served a greater than a merely local purpose in sending weekly to every locality their hundreds of messages of good and evil report, of politics and trade, of weather and crops, that helped immeasurably to bind the far-flung population into a nation.[25][26] Every congressman wrote regularly to his own local paper; other correspondents were called upon for like service, and in some instances the country editors established extensive and reliable lines of intelligence; but most of them depended on the bundle of exchanges from Washington, Philadelphia, and New York, and reciprocally the city papers made good use of their country exchanges.[27] ref>David M. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1107.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1107.txt