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{
"pid": "LCTJ-LF3",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Towne",
"name": "Benjamin Towne",
"gender": "Male",
"desc": "Towne opened a printing house of his own in 1774 and published the first issue of the Pennsylvania Evening Post, a tri-weekly, on January 24, 1775. This was the first evening newspaper printed in Philadelphia and the only newspaper that continued to be published in that city through the Revolutionary War."
}