Lyceum Star and Evening Chronicle and Review and Miscellaney (RI, 1833-1836)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1833, Alphabetical Order, L, Rhode Island, Uncategorized, United States Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Unknown

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1833-1836

Size and Format:  about 400 pages

Editor/Publisher:  Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation:  Review and Miscellaney

General Description and Notes:

According to manuscripts curator at the Rhode Island Historical Society Cynthia Bendroth, “We never could establish whether it was ever published or distributed since it is in a bound volume.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Manuscripts, The Rhode Island Historical Society Library, Providence, RI

The Little Printing Press (AK, 1953-1957)

July 13, 2011

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The Little Printing Press (AK, 1953-1957)

Place of Publication: Nome, Alaska

Frequency:  Unknown, 64 issues

Volume and Issue Data: July 15, 1953-July1957

Size and Format:  Handwritten and typed

Editor/Publisher:  Pamela Mandeville Mulvihill (eight years old)

Title Changes and Continuation:  The Little Newsprint

General Description and Notes:

According to the editor in notes written in 1975, The Little Newsprint was begun by Pamela Mandeville Mulvihill in Nome when she was eight years old.  Her mother, Ellen Mulvihill, did the typing and the ran the ditto machine.  Her mother committed the error in the title by changing the name to The Little Printing Press after the first issue.  Pamela did all the writing and dictated to her mother what she should type, including spelling.

The paper appeared irregularly for 64 issues untill about July, 1957.  The reason for starting the paper “has been forgotten,” but the author claims it was an “instant success.”

The Little Printing Press (AK, 1953-1957)

According to Mulvihill, she sold 100 copies for 1 cent each.  I never took tips.  After the paper had been typed and run off the night before (usually very late after many discussions over the news), she would attach her coin changer to her belt and go to main street early Saturday morning.  There was a regular route through various stores and offices which were her regular customers.  The drug store took several which they resold.

She had several regular subscribers throughout Alaska and a few “outside.”  Delegate Bob Bartlett was an occasional reader.  Out of towners were charged only the cost of the paper plus postage–5 cents at the time.  Ads were five cents.  News was collected by simply being a girl growing up in Nome; “I just kept my ears open!” (PMM, Dec. 16, 1975)

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations: Alaska State Library

Little Monitor (NC, 1869)

July 13, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Wilmington, NC

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1869

Size and Format:  Pen and ink journal

Editor/Publisher:  Edward A. Oldham

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

“In 1869 at Wilmington, N. C., so far as it has been possible to ascertain, occurred the initial awakening of amateur journalism in the South. At the age of nine, Edward A. Oldham, who was later to become a leading publisher of newspapers, weekly and daily, and a distinguished columnist and writer, produced his first effort in mimic journalism, a pen-and-ink journal, bearing the title of the Little Monitor, suggested by his having been selected as monitor in a private school, where he was among the youngest pupils. This little make-believe newspaper was issued often enough to intensify the young editor’s ambition to own a real printing press and to print a little paper. He had seen Benjamin S. Wood’s advertisement of the Novelty Press in his monthly copy of the St. Nicholas. In time he managed to earn money enough for the purchase of a press and type equipment, and in 1870 he published the Star of the South, four pages, each page 5 x 7 inches, printing one page at a time. This tiny journal set the pace for Southern boys, North Carolina boys particularly, and in that State there quickly followed the Boys’ Courier from New Born, with James M. Howard, Charles R. Thomas and Owen Guiort, as editors. The last named became a Superior Court judge, and Thomas rose to political prominence and became a Member of Congress from North Carolina for several terms, in the Nineties and later.” (The Early Pioneers of Amateur Journalism (Before 1876))

“WHAT HAS BEEN CHARACTERIZED as “The Mimic Press” had an early start in North Carolina. In 1869, at the age of nine, Edward A. Oldham, of Wilmington, is credited with producing the first “amateur newspaper” — the Little Monitor, a pen and ink folio, followed in 1873 by the Star of the South, miniature and type-set.” (Oldham, History of Early Amateur Journalism in North Carolina)

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Links: Edward A. Oldham, History of Early Amateur Journalism in North Carolina, http://www.thefossils.org/horvat/aj/states/NorthCarolina.htm; The Early Pioneers of Amateur Journalism (Before 1876)  http://www.thefossils.org/horvat/aj/pioneers.htm

Locations:  Unknown

Little Joker (TX, 1866-1869)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1866, Alphabetical Order, Frontier Papers, L, Military Papers, Texas, United States Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Jacksboro, Texas

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Published sometime between 1866 and 1869.

Size and Format:  On foolscap

Editor/Publisher:  H.H. McConnell

Title Changes and Continuation:  Same editor/publisher produced the BIG INJUN at Fort Belknap,Texas and THE GRASSHOPPER at Fort Buffalo, Texas.

General Description and Notes:

According to Whisenhunt, the Jacksboro area had no fewer than four newspapers between 1866 and 1869, although only one was printed.  The editor of all four was H.H. McConnell, a soldier first assigned to Jacksboro, Texas in 1866.  McConnell recounts his journalistic efforts and military experience on the Texas frontier in the Reconstruction period in his autobiography, Five Years a Cavalryman.

Shortly after he arrived in Jacksboro, McConnell and other soldiers published a weekly newspaper, LITTLE JOKER, on foolscap.  The paper circulated among the soldiers at Jacksboro.  The Jacksboro post was temporarily abandoned by the military, and the LITTLE JOKER “was ignominiously packed on a Quartermaster’s house and moved to Fort Belknap.”

At Fort Belknap soon issued another handwritten paper, BIG INJUN, intended for a military audience.  According to McConnell, “Here the genius of the editor again broke forth, and the ‘Big Injun’ for a time shed an undying lustre on the literature of the nineteenth century.”  The paper was short-lived:  “Like a meteor flashing along the midnight sky–brilliant for a moment, then rendering the darkness more intense–so the ‘Big Injun’ ran its course.”

McConnell’s transfer to nearby Fort Buffalo Springs marked the publication of his third handwritten, THE GRASSHOPPER.  Like its predecessors, THE GRASSHOPPER was short-lived.  Fort Buffalo Springs was soon abandoned for the more strategic Jacksboro post.

McConnell was finally reassigned to Fort Richardson where he contracted with a Weatherford,Tex.printer to publish The Flea.  This, his first printed newspaper, appeared Feb. 1, 1869, but lasted only six issues, until June 15, 1869.

According the Whisenut, McConnell’s handwritten papers did little more than provide diversion for the soldiers at their respective military posts, but “this was important.  Their very existence also implies that the life of the frontier soldier was mostly a monotonous existence despite the legend and aura of romance that surrounds the United States Cavalry.”

Information Sources:                   

Bibliography:  H.H. McConnell, Five Years a Cavalryman (Jacksboro, Texas:  J.N. Rogers and Co., 1889), p. 174; Donald W. Whisenhunt, “The Frontier Newspaper:  A Guide to Society and Culture,” Journalism Quarterly, 45:4 (Winter 1968), 727; see also Theronne Thompson, “Fort Buffalo Springs, Texas, Border Post,” West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, 36:168 (October 1960).

Location:  None

Little Joker (SK, 1888)

July 13, 2011

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Litte Joker (SK, 1888 )

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada

Frequency:

Volume and Issue Data:  Twelve issues; June-Dec. 1888

Size and Format:  11 x 17 inches

Editor/Publisher: Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description and Notes:

Saskatchewan Archives Board has 70 pp. of this manuscript newspaper.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations: Saskatchewan Archives Board, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

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Little Joker (SK, 1888)

The Little Girls’ Magazine (UT, 1879)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1879, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Faith-Specific Papers, L, Mormon (LDS) Papers, Organization Newspapers, United States, Utah, Youth Papers Leave a comment

Little Girls Magazine (UT, 1879)

Publication History:

Place of Publication: St. George, Utah

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol.1, No. 3, Nov. 12, 1879

Size and Format:  7.75 x 12.5 inches; one col.; pen and ink; 13 pp.

Editor/Publisher:  J.A. Ivins, editor (1879), on behalf of the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association

Title Changes and Continuation:  Preceded by The Young Ladies Diadem

General Description and Notes:

The paper’s motto was “Perseverance conquers all things.”  The pages are filled with moralistic encouragement for young girls to have proper manners, to look for men who are moral and honest, to exercise their intellectual abilities (not to be idle), etc.

Several items are addressed “to the little girls of our association.”  Vol. 1, No. 3, includes two editorials, True Nobility, House-keeping, Kindness, Letters from Aunt Lou, Good Manners, Prayer, Cheerfulness, My Attendance at these meetings, To [sic] Late, and Cheerfulness at Home.

The stories appear to have been written by the young girls of the mutual improvement association and some of the elder women advisers.

Information Sources:               

Bibliography:  None

Locations: Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, UT (Mss A 1052)

The Little Chief (OK, 1899)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1899, Alphabetical Order, Faith-Specific Papers, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, L, Oklahoma, United States Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Darlington, Oklahoma

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan., 1899-Vol. 1, No. 3, Feb., 1899

Size and Format:  Four page, two columns, handwritten and mimeographed

Editor/Publisher:  Rev. W.M. Wellman, pastor, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians Congregational Mission (1899)

Title Changes and Continuations:  None

General Description and Notes:

According to Littlefield and Parins, The Little Chief served as the mission’s promotional paper.  It was “devoted to the interests of the Christian work now being done among the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in general and to the Congregational Mission in particular.”  The paper contained appeals to donors outside the mission community and reported the “progress” of the Indians toward Christianity.  The paper also published tribal statistics, church news, inspirational statements and other news of activities related to the mission community.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  David F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins,  American Indian andAlaskaNative Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 (Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Press, 1984), 247-248

Locations:  OkMuB-J

The Little Acorn (MA, no date)

July 13, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Massachusetts

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Unknown

Size and Format:  Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description and Notes:

None

Information Sources:         

Bibliography: None

Link:  American Antiquarian Society, Amateur Newspapers, Kentucky

Locations:  American Antiquarian Society, Worceseter, MA

Like It or Lump It (OR, 1844)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1844, Alphabetical Order, L, Oregon, Organization Newspapers, United States Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Falls?, Oregon (1844)

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Dec. 1844

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Falls Literary Association

Title Changes and Continuation: None

General Description and Notes:

None

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations: Oregon Historical Society

Light Wood Knot Herald and Daily Expositor (SC, 1837-1838)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1837, Alphabetical Order, Community Papers, Humor Papers, L, South Carolina, United States Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Light Wood Knot, S.C. (near Columbia)

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1837-1838

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Martha Warrington Nutting Stratton (1814-1890), Jacob Levin, Thomas Seibels

Title Changes and Continuation: None

General Description and Notes:

 “A facetious newspaper containing parodies, humorous news articles, poems, advertisements, obituaries, and sketches.”  Light Wood Knot Springs was located near Columbia and was frequented by planters and their families.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

The Libby Prison Chronicle (VA, 1863)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1863, Alphabetical Order, L, Military Papers, Prison Papers, United States, US Civil War-Era Papers, Virginia Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, Confederate States of America

Frequency:  Weekly; irregular

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. 1, No. 1, August 21, 1863; Nos. 8-12, Vol. 2 (1863)

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Editor-in-chief, Louis N. Beaudry, Chaplain, Fifth N.Y. Vol. Cavalry;  “J.L. Ransom” (A chaplain of a New York regiment)

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description and Notes:

Several numbers of The Libby Prison Chronicle were written weekly in manuscript in 1863 at the Libby Prison and printed in 1889.  One Libby prisoner, Capt. Frank Moran, of the 73rd New York Volunteers, recalled the Chronicle in a personal letter:

“The spirit of Yankee enterprise was well illustrated by the publication of a newspaper by the energetic chaplain of aNew York regiment.  It was entitled The Libby Prison Chronicle.  True, there were no printing facilities at hand, but, undaunted by this difficulty, the editor obtained and distributed quantities of manuscript paper among the prisoners who were leaders in their several professions, so that there was soon organized an extensive corps of able correspondents, local reporters, poets, punsters, and witty paragraphers, that gave the chronicle a pronounced success.  Pursuant to previous announcement, the “editor” on a stated day each week, would take up his position in the center of the upper east room, and, surrounded by an audience limited only by the available space, would read the articles contributed during the week.”

According to Starr, some prisoners regretted leaving Libby camp because,

“Classes are organized in Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Mathematics, & Phonography, while there are plenty of surgeons and chaplains to encourage amateurs in Physiology and zealots in Dialectics.  The ‘Libby Lyceum’ meets twice a week, with spirited debates, & there is a MS newspaper styled The Libby Chronicle.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Louis N. Beaudry, The Libby Chronicle (Albany, N.Y., 1889), J.L. Ransom, Libby Prison Chronicle (Chicago:  J.L. Ransom, 1894); Frank E. Moran, “Libby’s Bright Side:  A Silver Lining in the Dark Cloud of Prison Life,” in W.C. King and W.P. Derby, eds., Camp-fire Sketches and Battle-field Echoes (Springfield, Ill: 1887), pp. 183-185; Louis M. Starr, Bohemian Brigade:  Civil War Newsmen in Action (Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1954, 1987), pp. 188-189; Frank S. Stone, The Treatment and Conditions of the War Prisoners Held in the South During the Civil War, unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Idaho, 1954, pp. 31-33.

Links: Transcription of Vol. 1, No. 1, August 21,  1863:  http://www.mdgorman.com/Prisons/Libby/libby_chronicle_8211863.htm

Locations:  None, but text and illustrations printed in Ransom (1894)

The Levee Gazette (CT, 1828)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1828, Alphabetical Order, Connecticut, L, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Hartford, CT

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1828, 2 issues

Size and Format:  4 pages and 4 oversize pages

Editor/Publisher: Hartford Female Seminary

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description and Notes:

Written by students at the Hartford Female Seminary founded by Catharine E. Beecher (1800-1878), sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).

Information Sources:                     

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  The Stowe-Day Foundation, Hartford, CT

Le Californien (CA, 1850)

July 13, 2011

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Le Californien (CA, 1850)

Publication History:

Place of Publication: San Francisco, California

Frequency:  Weekly, began January 17,1850, ceased in Feb? 1850.

Volume and Issue Data: January 31, 1850, No. 3.

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: None

General Description and Notes:

In French.  Lithographed due to lack of proper type for French language.  The librarian could not locate the original, but they are supposed to have it.

Information Sources:                

Bibliography:  Wall, Alexander J. “Early Newspapers,” New-York Historical Society Quarterly, V. 15, N. 2 (July 1931).

Locations: Newspaper Collection, New York Historical Society, New York, NY

The Leasure Hour (NC, 1866,1869)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1866, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, L, North Carolina, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Harrington, North Carolina (Cumberland County, now known as Harnett County)

Frequency:  The 1866 issue says monthly.

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. l, No 1, October 1866; and Vol. I, No. 1, May 1869, and No. 2, June 1869.

Size and Format:   The 1866 copy is 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2; all are 4 pp. each

Editor/Publisher:  “Harrington & Co.” for the first one and Sion A. Harrington (postmaster at Harrington, NC, in 1851) for the other two.

Title Changes and Continuation:  Same title but Vol. 1 appears in 1866 and again in 1869.

General Description and Notes:

Contains verses, essays, and miscellany.  The 1866 issue is described as “crudely printed”.  The other two look as if they may be drafts prepared for publication, but no published copies have been found.

According to Michael Ray Smith, ” Sion A. Harrington, John’s younger brother, printed at least one known copy of a handwritten newspaper called the Weekly News on February 2, 1869, and two issues of The Leasure Hour, a monthly publication, in May and June 1869″ (Free Press in Freehand, p. 70).

Information Sources:                   

Bibliography: Michael Ray Smith, Free Press in Freehand (Grand Rapids, MI: Edenridge Press, 2011)

Locations:   The 1866 paper is in the North Carolina room (C050), and the other two (Accession No. 3341) are in the Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Manuscripts Department,  Chapel Hill, NC

La Mignionette (IL, 1840)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1840, Alphabetical Order, Illinois, L, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Monticello College, Godfrey, Illinois

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1840, vol. I, No. 7 and submissions

Size and Format:  43 pages

Editor/Publisher:  Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation:  Possibly later known as “Cobwebs”, 1862.  Both are publications of Monticello College.

General Description and Notes:

None

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Monticello College Records (Box 9),  Manuscripts, Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, IL

Lake Peak News (NV, 1906)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1906, Alphabetical Order, Community Papers, L, Mining Camp Papers, Nevada, United States Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Walker Lake Reservation, Nevada

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data: Oct. 29, 1906, only known issue reported

Size and Format:  Four pages

Editor/Publisher:  Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: None

General Description and Notes:

A story in the Reno Nevada State Journal, of Oct. 31, 1906, p. 5, under the headline, “First Newspaper is ‘Printed’ with Pencil,” states:

“The first newspaper published in the newly opened Walker Lake reservation has come into the hands of the Journal.  It is a curiosity.  Four pages constitute its dimensions and it is written with a pencil.  It is called the Lake Peak News.  The principal article, the “lead,” written under date of October 29 [1906], concerns a townsite already laid out and called Lake Peak.

“Prospectors report,” says the article, “that thirty claims have been staked out at Lake Peak in the porphyry hills.  it is estimated that 2400 men made the dash into the reservation today.  One hundred from Cat Creek, near Hawthorne, 500 from Montella, 200 from Bald Mountain, 150 from Buck Brush, 100 from Schurz, 50 from Thorne and neighboring hills, 150 from Hawthorne and 400 from miscellaneous points.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Cited in Reno, Nevada State Journal, Wed., Oct. 31, 1906, p.5; reprinted in Fallon Churchill Standard, Nov. 10, 1906.

Locations: Unknown

La Critique (MA, 1829)

July 13, 2011

Roy Alden Atwood 1829, Alphabetical Order, L, Massachusetts, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Amherst College, Massachusetts

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1829, Vol. 1, nos. 2, 3, 4, 5

Size and Format:  16 pp. total

Editor/Publisher: Amherst College Students

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

None

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  Publications holdings, Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library, Amherst, MA

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