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“The editor requests all those who are indebted to him for Newspapers and Magazines to make payment. — Butter will be received for small sums, if brought within a few days.” — Isaiah Thomas, editor of Worcester Magazine, in a 1787 notice to readers, quoted in “A History of American Magazines: 1741–1850,” by Frank Luther Mott.
Mott adds that Thomas also accepted “wood, cheese, pork, corn, and other produce.”
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