1837.
As early as 1837, [Charles] Keemle and Major Alphonso Wetmore started a literary weekly called the Saturday News. They published several issues which were very creditable. They were ahead of the city. Keemle’s ideals were high.
(From St. Louis, the Fourth City by Walter Barlow Stevens, 1909).
Lasted less than a year.
Var.: Missouri Saturday News
