From "Holbrook's Pocket Guide 1872":

The Newark Morning Register, office 181 Market Street, was established in 1869, as a two-cent paper, and under its present management is being rendered a most decided success.  In the beginning of the present year, the Register was purchased by the Newark Printing Company, a new incorporation, Theodore Runyan president, W. A. Ure, business manager, since which it has continued to rise so rapidly in public estimation that its circulation within the city, begins to eclipse that of older contemporaries.  Democratic in politics, it is characterized by that courtesy and moderation which forms such a marked and pleasant feature of the whole range of our newspaper literature.  The Register devotes itself closely to home matters, city, suburban and State.  Notices of municipal improvement, gossip on passing events, encouragement of business and manufactures, and a varied and judicious selection of other matter are constantly tending to enlarge the circle of its readers, and make it a family necessity.