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Anna Zenger

Destination Freedom · 1950 · 29 min · 4,082 words

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To find out how to get the bike you like, raid your Chicago Herald American. Destination Freedom. Listen, it's the Freedom Bell. The Freedom Bell, my friend.

And this is Paul Revere, called back from the shadows by the sound of the Freedom Bell. To try again a warning that the price of freedom is eternal vision. The Destination Freedom is presented by Station WMAQ in the interest of human freedom the world over.

Paul reveres the symbol of warning, ready to ride down the skies to shout an alarm. His destination, now and forever, freedom. If I had but one more story to tell before my spirit died forever, I would choose this, the story of Anna Zinger, the mother of freedom.

It has been said that hell has no fury like a woman scorned. The truth of that was never denied, especially by John's Peter Zinger, a poor printer who returned home one evening back in 1725 with a copy of the New York Gazette, the first paper to be printed in the colony of New York.

John, it's early, I didn't expect you. Oh, Anna, there was very little doing, and I closed for the day. Oh, darling, what's this? It's the first printing of the new paper. What? Let me see it, John.

Here. The New York does this. Oh, darling, this is exciting. It's wonderful. But you didn't tell me you were going to print it. I didn't print it. Oh, please don't joke, darling. It's just as we planned.

Our title is... I didn't print it, Anna. William Bradford's a publisher. Brad? Why, he never think of it in a thousand years. He... Yes, he did, printed, didn't he? You told him. I dropped in a few weeks ago and mentioned that you thought New York needed a paper for the people?

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