''The Saturday Press'' was a literary weekly newspaper, published in

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from 1858 to 1860 and again from 1865 to 1866, edited by Henry Clapp Jr. Clapp, nicknamed the "King of Bohemia" and credited with importing the term "

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" to the U.S, was a central part of the antebellum New York literary and art scene. Today he is perhaps best known for his spotlighting of

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, Fitz-James O'Brien, and

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– all habitués of the bohemian watering hole named

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– in ''The Saturday Press''. Clapp intended the ''Press'' to be New York's answer to ''

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''. The ''Press'' was constantly troubled by financial problems, and Clapp died in poverty and obscurity.

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's first short story, "

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", was first published under the title "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in ''The Saturday Press'' in 1865.

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