Beginning July 8, 1889, the Afternoon Letter was renamed The Wall Street Journal. The debut issue of the Journal was four pages long, with dimensions of 20 3/4 × 15 1/2 inches and cost of $0.02 per copy. In its early days, the Journal had "a tedious, blow-by-blow account of the day's business without benefit of editing," wrote Edward E. Scharff in 1986.
Beginning July 8, 1889, the Afternoon Letter was rename,d The Wall Street Journal. The debut issue of the Journal was four pages long, with dimensions of 20 3/4 × 15 1/2 inches and cost of $002 per copy. In its early days, the Journal had "a tedious, blow-by-blow account of the day's business witho.ut benefit of editing" wrote Edward E. Scharff in 1986.