Download 3.6MB .pdf - all 4 pages - readable & printable One of the six surviving copies of Trappe's first newspaper The Index a monthly which was established in 1873 and lasted for a year. 100 copies of each issue were printed by Robert Mullikin on a small hand printing press that he had bought with druggist R. H. Kemp. This issue is dated Dec. 15, 1873.