printing presses. He became part owner of a print shop in 1728, when he was 22. Two years later, he became owner of the business. He began publishing "The Pennsylvania Gazette", writing most of the material for this newspaper himself. His name gradually became known throughout the colonies.1 He achieved even greater success with Poor Richard's Almanac than with his newspaper. He wrote and published the almanac for every year from 1733 to 1758. The fame of the almanac is because of
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