[History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. CHAPTER XXXV 6/29
Dwight, arrived at Constantinople as secular agent, with his wife, a daughter of Dr.Bliss.Miss Mary D.Francis arrived in 1866, and was afterwards married to Mr.Adams. [1] See _Missionary Herald_ for 1867, p.
98. Among other signs of progress was the increase of newspapers in Constantinople, and one or two other cities of Turkey.
In Constantinople, five years before, a newspaper was rarely seen in the hands of any one of the thousands of persons passing up or down the Bosphorus and Golden Horn in the steamers which take the place of the street cars of Boston or New York.
Now it had become a common sight, and newsboys thronged the thoroughfares with their papers, in Turkish and other languages.
The standard of journalism was not high, but the thoughts of men were stirred.
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