The Times Herald (Norristown, Pennsylvania) The Times Herald (Norristown, Pennsylvania) The Times Herald is a daily newspaper in Norristown, Pennsylvania. The newspaper began as the "Norristown Gazette", which published its first edition on June 15, 1799. The newspaper's first publisher was David Sower, the son of Christopher Sower, a controversial figure who published ant-war sentiments and was branded a 'Tory,' a derogatory term used to describe Americans who were 'loyal to the British' during the American Revolution. In 1800, the name of the newspaper was changed to the ""Norristown Herald and Weekly Advertiser"", a name it retained in various forms until 1922, when it was
The Last Times The Last Times The Last Times was a tabloid underground newspaper published in San Francisco in 1967 by beatnik poet and printer Charles Plymell. It lasted only two issues, but included work by William Burroughs, Claude Pelieu, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Bukowski. "The Last Times" featured William Burroughs' text "Day the Records Went Up" (a version of which later appeared in "Evergreen Review", November 1968), Claude Pelieu's "Do It Yourself & Dig It", Allen Ginsberg's poem "Television Was A Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber" (also published in Ginsberg's book "T.V. Baby Poems" , London: Cape Goliart Press, 1967), and a