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The Creek Boys’ and Girls’ Monthly (OK, 1870-1875)
June 20, 2011
1870, Alphabetical Order, C, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, Oklahoma, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Tullahassee Manual Labor School, Creek Nation, Wagoner County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) (1870-1875)
Frequency: Monthly
Volume and Issue Data: The Creek Boys’ and Girls’ Monthly (Vol. 1, No. 1, Dec. 1870-Vol. 1, No. 5, April 27, 1871); Our Monthly (Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan. 1873-Vol. 4, No. 10, Oct. 1875); may have run as late as 1876
Size and Format: Two columns, published in both Creek and English languages
Editor/Publisher: William S. Robertson and Ann Augusta Robertson (1870-1875)
Title Changes and Continuation: The Creek Boys’ and Girls’ Monthly (1870-1871); Our Monthly (1873-1875?)
General Description and Notes:
The first volume (1870-1872) of the small, two-column monthly appeared only in manuscript. Later issues were printed on a hand press donated by Creek National Council.
The Rev. William S. Roberston, a Presbyterian missionary associated with the Tullahassee school since 1850, assisted by his daughter Ann Augusta, edited contributions mostly from Creek student exercises. The purpose of the paper was “the moral and intellectual improvement” of the students, and to “give the Creeks parts of the Bible and religious songs in their own language.” In addition to student work, the Robertsons solicited writings from any Creeks who were interested in the school or its publications. The monthly’s manuscript editions were received so well by the community that the Creek National Council provided funds to purchase a printing press and appropriated $100 annually to cover printing 1,000 copies per issue a year. Copies were distributed free in the Creek Nation. Our Monthly first appeared in print in Jan. 1873.
The paper was published in both Creek and English, with many issues almost entirely in Creek. Ann Eliza Robertson translated some articles, scripture passages and hymns into Creek while others were written by Creeks.
In addition to general news about the Creek nation and education matters, the paper also published political commentary. For example, an 1875 Creek letter called for the repeal of the Treaty of 1866, which gave railroads a claim to Indian land. Local advertising and local news also appeared.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Althea Bass, The Story of Tullahassee (Oklahoma City: Semco Color Press, 1960); Carolyn Thomas Foreman, Oklahoma Imprints, 1835-1907 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936); James Constantine Pilling, Bibliography of the Muskhogean Languages (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1889); James E. Murphy and Sharon M. Murphy, Let My People Know: American Indian Journalism, 1828-1978 (Norman: University, 1981), 59; David F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins, American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 293-296.
Locations: Danky and Hady; OkMu; OkTu; ULS
The Coyote (CA, 1850)
June 20, 2011
Alphabetical Order, C, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Cool Spring Pen (NC, 1878-?)
June 20, 2011
1878, Alphabetical Order, C, North Carolina, Organization Newspapers, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Cool Spring, Iredell, North Carolina
Frequency: Unknown; published “every once in a while.”
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, no. 1 (Feb. 8, 1878)-18??
Size and Format: Pen and ink journal
Editor/Publisher: E. Walter McIver
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
“Published at the Cool Spring Academy in [sic] behalf of the Cool Spring Debating Society and education generally.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Links: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99061547/
Locations: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC
Cobwebs (IL, 1862)
June 20, 2011
1862, Alphabetical Order, C, Illinois, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Monticello College, Godfrey, Illinois
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1862
Size and Format: 14 pages
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: Perhaps formerly known as “La Mignionette“, 1840, also a publication of Monticello College.
General Description and Notes:
None
Information Sources:
Bibliography:
Locations: Monticello College Records, Box 9, Manuscripts, Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, IL
The Club (UT, 1872)
June 20, 2011
1872, Alphabetical Order, C, School Newspapers, United States, Utah Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Lehi City, Utah
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1 No. 2, December 13, 1872
Size and Format: 16”x25”: four lined sheets of 8”x12.5” pasted together (4×6 piece posted in the lower right corner front. 4 columns written on both sides
Editor/Publisher: The Thurmond brohers of J.E. Ross
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description & Notes:
“Devoted to choice literature and amusements.”
[Page 1] Reminiscences: [Editorial Policy] “In our last number we published a short editorial setting fourth [sic] the great and fundamental principasl upon which this paper is based. Our object as the great and universal good of mankind, the total abolishment of every prinicple that is opposed to justice, truth and honor; to train the immortal mind of man that he may walk in paths of purity. These are the great purposes for which we devote our labors, our time and our money
“Our motto is perserverence, unceasing diligence will achieve great results and though we stand lone in thes arduous struggle for reformation, still our columns will flooded with immortal principals [sic] and precepts that will discern as a legacy to succeeding generations, . . . “
Conatins: poetry, local and other matters, letter to the editor, thank you “to the girls that prepared our room for the meeting last Wednesdayevening and also this evening.”
According to Hamilton Gardner, (224) Lehi YMMIA was founded in 1875. Primary association was established in 1878. (418) John E. Ross came to Lehi in 1840, taught school for 29 years and secondary school for 25 years.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Hamilton Gardner, History of Lehi, SLC, The Deseret News, 1913.
Locations: Mormon Church Archives, Salt Lake City, UT
Clanwilliam Hustler (BC, 1894)
June 20, 2011
1894, Alphabetical Order, British Columbia, C, Canada Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: British Columbia, Canada
Frequency: One copy only
Volume and Issue Data: 1894
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description & Notes:
None
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: British Columbia Archives and Records Services, Victoria, British Columbia
The Chugg Water Journal (WY, 1849)
June 20, 2011
1849, Alphabetical Order, C, Frontier Papers, Images, United States, Wyoming Leave a comment
Chugg Water Journal (WY, 1849)
[Post updated August 17, 2011; thanks to Andrew Tucker for information about Fort Laramie’s Commanding Officer William Scott Ketchum]
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Fort Laramie, Wyoming; “office under the hill, but still within hearing of the Juvenile Infirmary, when the wind is favorable” (November 1849, Vol. 1, No. 4)
Volume and Issue Data: October-December, 1849; “will appear occasionally, and sometimes oftener, if not sooner” (Oct. 1849, Vol. 1, No. 2)
Size and Format: 7.75 x 11.5 inches, two columns, with cursive writing and ink illustration with captions
Editor/Publisher: “The Quartette”
Title Changes and Continuations: None
General Description and Notes:
The editors describe the paper as “the largest paper printed at Fort Laramie.” .
According to Andrew Tucker (see bibliography below), William Scott Ketchum, one of the names mentioned in the Journal, was an officer of the 6th Infantry stationed at Fort Gibson and later Fort Laramie. He was the commander at Fort Laramie when the Journal was published.
In the October 1849 issue (Vol. 1, No. 2), a joke mentions Ketchum: “Why is the Commander of the Infantry Company at this Post a terror to evil-doers? ‘Cause he Ketch-um.”
Chugg Water Journal (WY, 1849)
Tucker reports that Ketchum was a West Point grad and served as an Army officer in the Second Seminole War, and had frontier duty at Fort Gibson and Fort Laramie. He went on to become a brigadier general by the end of the Civil War. After he retired, he was allegedly poisoned by Elizabeth Wharton, the widow of one his fellow officers. The trial afterward gained international attention. Wharton was apparently acquitted.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Michael L. Tate, The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), pp. 264-265; thanks to Andrew Tucker, a relative of William Scott Ketchum, for the citation of the Tate book and the background information about Ketchum (via email exchanges with the HNP editor, August 16-17, 2011)
Links: Michael L. Tate, The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), pp. 264-265; Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Locations: Wyoming Department of Commerce, Division of Parks and Cultural Resources, Historical Research and Publications Unit, Cheyenne, WY (microfilmed)
Choiceland Moonlighter (SK, 1872-1873)
June 20, 2011
1872, Alphabetical Order, C, Canada, Children Papers, Saskatchewan Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1872-1873
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Published by a 10-year-old boy
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Saskatchewan Archives, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Chinese News (NY, 1894-?)
June 20, 2011
1894, Alphabetical Order, C, Community Papers, Foreign Language Papers, New York, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Frequency: Unknown, but multiple copies produced
Volume and Issue Data: 1894, perhaps longer
Size and Format: Pen and ink, hand lettered Chinese characters
Editor/Publisher: William J. Hanley & Steve Linguard
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
According to the Library of Congress, the description based on: No. 8 (Aug. 10, 1894). Red background with hand lettered in Chinese
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Links: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn2004060426/
Locations: New York State Rgn, Albany, NY
Cheviot Solitare (OH, 1868)
June 20, 2011
1868, Alphabetical Order, C, Ohio, Uncategorized, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Cheviot, Ohio “Coverts New Building West Side of Main Street above the Post Office”
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Vol 1, no. 1, Jan. 22, 1868.
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: White and White, Editors and proprietors
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
“Green Township Right or Wrong” “Independent in Politics, and religion.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Alfred Kleine-Kreutzmann, Curator of Rare Books & Special Collections, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, 800 Vine Street-Library Square, Cincinnati, OH
Cheviot Privateer (OH, 1862)
June 20, 2011
1862, Alphabetical Order, C, Ohio, Uncategorized, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Cheviot, Ohio. “To be had at the Publishing House, No. 10, Mud Avenue, or at the News Report”
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. I, No. X, March 24, 1862
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Aaron Flaxey, Commander, and Hiram Flipper, Purser.
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
“Free speech, free press, and free toleration in religion.”
“Devoted to both sides of the Political hemisphere and the general news of Green Township.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Rare Books & Special Collections, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH
Cheviot Gem (OH, 1862)
June 20, 2011
1862, Alphabetical Order, C, Ohio, Uncategorized, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: No. 9, Promenade, Cheviot, Ohio
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. I, no. VIII,Jan. 30, 1862
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Crowfoot & Co.
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
“Devoted to all things generally proper to appear in print for the instruction and amusement of the public especially Chevilonians.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Rare Books & Special Collections, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH
Cheviot Coquette (OH, 1859)
June 20, 2011
1859, Alphabetical Order, C, Ohio, Uncategorized, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Cheviot, Ohio; “Published (indiscriminately) on the NW corner of Sprat & Musty Streets”
Frequency:
Volume and Issue Data: Vol 1, No. 4, Sept. 7, 1859, and No. 7, Oct. 3, 1859.
Size and Format:
Editor/Publisher: “Sans & Souci”, anonymous writers who say of themselves: “Now my friends there is such persons as the above they have and bare a partial resemblance to old grand father Adam. And they are men too who take pleasure in walking your streets, . . . First we see a Mr. A—, painted out as the bonified Editor, next comes Mr. B—.”
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
“Devoted to the scattering news and gossip of the town and country. Liberal in religion and politics. Always open for conviction.”
“Tell All We Know.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Rare Books & Special Collections, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH
Charivari (Eng-Aus, 1854)
June 20, 2011
1854, Australia, C, England, Images, Shipboard Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Shipboard, aboard the Queen of the South, sailing from England to Australia
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Two issues and the beginnings of a third. The first issue is dated 15 April 1854.
Size and Format: Unknown (see image)
Editor/Publisher: Charles Lyall (d. 1910?)
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
From the State Library of Victoria website: “Shipboard newspaper, written in the style of Punch (the London Charivari) , on board the Queen of the South on a voyage from England to Australia in 1854. Includes a description of the ship’s brief stopover at St. Vincent in the Windward Islands.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None?
Locations: State Library of Victoria, accession no(s) MS 12221; MS 9100; accessible, but microfilm (MS 9100, MSM 39) issued instead of the original.
The Chapel News (GA, 1883-1903)
June 20, 2011
1883, Alphabetical Order, C, Georgia, Uncategorized, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Broad, Georgia
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Only one existing hand-written copy; 1883-1903?
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: 1883-1903
General Description and Notes:
None
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Framed and hanging in the publisher’s office of The Millen News, Millen, GA
Information obtained from Jay Evatt, Main Library, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Chalacha Pioneer (OR, 1855)
June 20, 2011
1855, Alphabetical Order, C, Frontier Papers, Oregon, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Chalacha, Washington Territory (Oregon), (1855)
Frequency: At least two issues
Volume and Issue Data: July 1 and 7, 1855
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
None
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Oregon State Historical Society
The Casket (NE, 1875)
June 20, 2011
1875, Alphabetical Order, C, Images, Nebraska, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
The Casket (NE, 1875)
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Prospect Hill School (District 75), Waverly, Lancaster County, Nebraska
Volume and Issue Data: Vol.1, No. 1, Jan. 22, 1875
Vol. 1, No. 2, Feb. 19, 1875
Vol. 1, No. 3, March 19, 1875
Size and Format: Ledger paper, 7.75 x 12 inches; pen and ink; 2 cols.
Editor/Publisher: Students, including Charles A. Pierce
Title Changes and Continuations: See THE EXPERIMENT and WILLOW CREEK JOURNAL may have been precursors to The Casket
General Description & Notes:
The Casket contains short news items, editorials anecdotes and student “compositions.” The weather apparently was of concern in all three extant numbers because of a bitter cold spell.
The editorial in the first number explains the circumstances of the new publication:
We come into your presence this afternoon, to make our first bow, in the editorial line, and hope that you will take our paper. When it was announced, a couple of weeks ago, that “our school” was to have a paper, many were the disheartening exclamations, and hints that it would be a second rate sort of thing, if it did come out.
The Casket (NE, 1875)
We were not discouraged, however, for we had confidence in our contributors; but we were surprised by the number of articles which came pouring in. Instead of our first number being a four or eight page paper, as we expected; we are enabled to issue a first class sixteen-page one, which we know exceeds the expectations of any of us. Our motto is “Excelisor,” as you may see, and we will try to improve with every number, instead of retrograding, as some papers do. As a last word, we ask you to keep on supporting use, as you did have this time, and we will soon be able to challenge any paper of this kind in the state, to excel us.
One of the student editors, Charles A. Pierce, was the son of Charles W. Pierce, a civil war veteran, who was transferred to Demopolis, Alabama in 1866 as a major with the Freedman’s Bureau and District commander of western Alabama. The senior Pierce served one term in the 41st Congress from Alabama’s fourth district in 1867. I was during this time that his son, Charles A., began his first handwritten newspaper, THE EXPERIMENT, at Oakland Hall, Chunchula, Alabama. In 1872 the family moved to Waverly, Nebraska, where THE EXPERIMENT, and its successor, WILLOW CREEK JOURNAL were published by Charles A in 1873. THE CASKET appeared in Nebraska in 1875 as a school effort, no doubt with the help of Charles A.
The Casket (NE, 1875)
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Nebraska State Historical Society, State Archives, Lincoln, NB, Charles Pierce papers, Ms. 554
The Casket (MA, 1857)
June 20, 2011
1857, Alphabetical Order, C, Massachusetts, Organization Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Boylston, Massachusetts
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1857
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
Amateur Newspaper, written with pen or pencil.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Link: The American Antiquarian Society, Amateur Newspapers Collection
Locations: American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
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