BULLFROG

BULLFROG l8SOs(?). LOCATION Summerside, P.E.I.. EDITOR Two prominent merchants. PROSPECTUS

The single issue of the Bullfrog which was published no longer exists. It is purported to have been Summerside's first news— paper. Allegedly, the Bullfrog was a single sheet and only one issue of it was ever published because, following the first printing, a stranger walked into the printshop and sat down on the paper's only inkslab. He walked away with it sticking to his clothes; thus, no further issues of the Bullfrog could be produced.1 The Bullfrog was devoted to "literature, travel, fact, fiction, politics, geography, poetry, fun, history, art, fashion, romance, humor, wit, love, courtship, matrimony, or any other man".2

HOLDINGS PAPEI originals An undated masthead and a newspaper clipping advertising the Bullfrog. FOOTNOTES 1

Ada MacLeod, "The History of Summerside," Summerside Journal, 23 June 1921, p. 33.

2Charlottetown, P.E.I., Public Archives of Prince Edward Island, Accession Numbers 2920/242, 2920/243a,b,c.

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