Editor’s Note: Following is the first of six reports (appearing in 25-year increments plus one present/future report) covering magazine highlights and major industry events during The National Provisioner’s 125 years in publishing.
Two months after the Dalton Gang’s first train-robbery attempt of Southern Pacific No. 17 near Alila, Calif., the premiere issue of The National Provisioner (NP) was published April 11, 1891, by Ganz & Marx in New York.