Bowers, W. W. - Business Manager - DAILY MORNING BULLETIN. Vol. I. No. 87. Saturday Morning, May 25, 1872

San Diego, Cal: The San Diego Publishing Association, 1872. 1st printing thus. Printed self-wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 4 pages, 5 columns per page. A few adverts with cuts. Folio. 18-1/2" x 12-1/2" The Bulletin emerged on the San Diego scene with its first appearance 21 August 1869. It lasted until 25 July 1872, when it, without missing an issue, transformed itself into the San Diego World [cf. Dawson, Southern California Newspapers, pp. 64-65. News of the day, including a number of paragraphs on the fashion craze, termed Dolly Varden ["whole costumes, whose like was never seen on sea or land"], sweeping through the gentler sex. Horizontal & vertical fold-lines. Foxing. A Good-plus copy.