The story of the Advocate is fascinating. I wonder where they got their fonts? Casting type wasn't something a small paper could do. Sequoyah developed the syllabary in 1821, so the paper was an "early adopter" even by modern standards.
Looking it up in the Ayer newspaper list of 1886, the Advocate had a circulation of 1800, and accepted advertising. The Creek, Choctaw and Cheyenne tribes each had their own weekly paper, and Vinita had another Cherokee paper.
They probably had multiple Cherokee typesets available to them by the time the Advocated started publishing in 1844. The Cherokee language had been printing for decades before then. The original Cherokee Phoenix newspaper began printing in 1828. Here's some more history on this: The Legacy of the Cherokee Phoenix Printing Press https://dh.scu.edu/exhibits/exhibits/show/the-cherokee-phoenix-printing-/the-legacy-of-the-cherokee-pho
The story of the Advocate is fascinating. I wonder where they got their fonts? Casting type wasn't something a small paper could do. Sequoyah developed the syllabary in 1821, so the paper was an "early adopter" even by modern standards.
Looking it up in the Ayer newspaper list of 1886, the Advocate had a circulation of 1800, and accepted advertising. The Creek, Choctaw and Cheyenne tribes each had their own weekly paper, and Vinita had another Cherokee paper.
They probably had multiple Cherokee typesets available to them by the time the Advocated started publishing in 1844. The Cherokee language had been printing for decades before then. The original Cherokee Phoenix newspaper began printing in 1828. Here's some more history on this: The Legacy of the Cherokee Phoenix Printing Press https://dh.scu.edu/exhibits/exhibits/show/the-cherokee-phoenix-printing-/the-legacy-of-the-cherokee-pho
Cherokee Phoenix celebrating 195th anniversary this month | News | cherokeephoenix.org
https://www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/cherokee-phoenix-celebrating-195th-anniversary-this-month/article_6bdb7332-b12c-11ed-9ca2-031e926464f4.html
That's even more fascinating! Now I need to explore the subject. Thanks.