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I have yours of September 25. The name of the paper you refer to was the Telephone. It was published, I think, monthly for something less than a year. It was put up in Souris. It was not printed but copied from manuscript on a contrivance called a hectograph which would give from 50 to 100 copies. It made beautiful pictures and cartoons. The artist was Captain Brennan...There were three editors: Duchemin, Mullally and Landrigan. Duchemin was a classical literary man, studied law and had a good practise but could not keep away from literary work.It was a piece of good fortune of mine to have known him and to be associated with him in his younger didactic days.73 There were several other attempts to establish a newspaper in Souris but none of them were able to continue for very long. These were the Eastern Advocate of 1866, the Prince Edward Island Times and Eastern Reporterin 1875 and the Times published by John Ross in 1879.

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James R. MacLean - 1842-1903

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Wallace MacLean, second son of James R. MacLean and Mary Armstrong Wightman of Summer- side published a few issues of two newspapers: Souris News and the Satellite. These, too, soon folded. He was, however, the author of two books of fiction. One was The Rival Lovers or Triumphant Jus- tice; the other, written in 1894 was called 1907. It was about a fictitious war set in the future between the United States and England. It was given a good review in the Prince Edward Islander of November 23, 1894. Wallace Maclean’s writing career ended with his death in November, 1897 of tuberculosis."

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