Australian Town and Country Journal was a weekly English language broadsheet newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, from 1870 to 1919. The paper was founded by Samuel Bennett The page heading identifies the journal's life as 1870-1907, but the period "8 Jan. 1870-June 25, 1919" appears in the text. with his intention for it to be "valuable to everybody for its great amount of useful and reliable information".
The paper was known for its range of topics, dealing with domestic and foreign news as well as featuring essays on literature, science and invention.
History The first issue of the Australian Town and Country Journal was published on 8 January 1870. The Journal ran until 25 June 1919. After 2 June 1878, when Samuel Bennett died, publication of the paper was taken over by his sons, Frank and Christopher.
Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.
See also List of newspapers in Australia List of newspapers in New South Wales
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External links
Press timeline: Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011 http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/heritage/NewspaperChronology.html The birth of the newspaper in Australia http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/birth-of-the-newspaper Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:9521/anb_rk.pdf Australian Town and Country introduces 'The Dawn' http://digitisethedawn.org/australian-town-and-country-introduces-dawn