Big Elk Budget (MT, 1890)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Big Elk (Wheatland), Montana

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol.  1, No. 1,  January 30, 1890 (1890-189?)

Size and Format:  Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  J.A. Crouse

Title Changes and Continuation: None

General Description and Notes:

Available on microfilm from Montana Historical Society. Hand-written.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Links: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036020/

Locations: Montana Historical Society Library, Helena, MT

Beltionian Review (IL, 1857-?)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  4 years of copies (no dates given)

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Beltionian Literary Society

Title Changes and Continuation: “Sister” publication The Evening Star (produced by the Student Lyceum League, Wheaton College); extant copy: Vol. 1, No. 3.

General Description & Notes:

The Beltionian Literary Society located at Wheaton College, was preceded by the Student Lyceum League.  The Society was established in 1857 and functioned until 1958.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  http://a2z.my.wheaton.edu/literary-societies/beltionian-literary-society; Special Collections, Wheaton College Archives, Wheaton, IL

The Belmont Star (AB, 1889-1890)

June 20, 2011

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Belmont AB Star (AB, 1889)

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Belmont School, Belmont, AB Canada

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Issues published in February 1889 to May 1890

Size and Format:  Variable

Editor/Publisher:  Albert Fraser, Simon Borwick, et al.

Title Changes and Continuation:  The Star

General Description and Notes:

According to an Edmonton city website, The Star was a handwritten newspaper put together by students of the Belmont School and teacher, James Bond Steele.  The Edmonton Archives have three editions of the newspaper, February 1889, March 1889 and May 1890.  Here is a scan and transcription of the introduction of the first edition:

StarIntroductionv3

The Belmont Star (AB, 1889)

The Belmont Star
Albert Fraser – Editor-in-Chief
Belmont, Alta., Feb’y, 1889

The Star

We present to-day the first number of the Belmont Star. It is started for the instruction [and]amusement of the pupils of Belmont[School]. All the news and other matter in the Star will be made up by the scholars. The school-house was put up in 1882, and the first teacher was Mr. Murphy. The old pupils generally leave in the spring, or at hay-making time, because there is more work then than any other time. Some of them stop a week or two in the autumn. New scholars generally begin in spring or summer. There were a few of the scholars sick for a while. Some didn’t go to school for two weeks; some for about a week. There were five examinations, one in 1885, one in 1886, one in 1887, and two in 1888.

And a transcription of the local news (pictured above):

Local News
Simon Borwick – – Editor

Robins were singing in town on March 2nd.

Henry J. Fraser saw a band of ducks on March 1st.

Rain fell on the 27th of February.

Eggs are 33 1/3 c a dozen, and butter is 40 c a pound.

The weather was fine all the month, with the exception of one week.

There are cracks in the ground 4 5/8 inches wide, and three feet deep.

Prairie fires are raging and have done some damage. Mr. Stedman had his house burnt, and others have lost a good deal of hay.

This has been a very open winter. The coldest day was Friday, Feb’y 22nd. It was 28 degrees below zero.

Some of the pupils were sick in school lately. Others were forced to make some sudden trips outside on account of their noses bleeding.

The ice is melting on the lakes.

Mr. William Rowland’s team ran away on the 26th.

The air has been very smoky lately.

Harry Fulton left scho[ol] on the 1st instant.

The Ducks

The ducks come early in the spring to lay their eggs. They lay them in a bush or by a lake. After she hatches her eggs she loses her feathers and can’t fly till in September. Then all the ducks begin to fly around the country. In the fall they go home to another country and stay till the next spring.

___ Henry J. Fraser

(City of Edmonton Archives volunteer Kathryn Merrett transcribed the Belmont Star stories above.)

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Link: http://www.transformingedmonton.ca/index.php/2011/04/20/belmont-school-newspaper-the-star-part-i/

Locations:  Edmonton Archives, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Belgravian Weekly Journal (ENG-AUS, 1866)

June 20, 2011

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The Belgravian Weekly Journal (Eng-Aus, 1866)

The Belgravian Weekly Journal (Eng-Aus, 1866)

Publication History:

Place of Publication: Aboard the ship Belgravia on its journey from England to Fremantle, Western Australia, with convicts, 28 April 1866-23 June, 1866

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1866

Size and Format:  See image of the front page of No. 2, May 5, 1866

Editor/Publisher:  Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description and Notes:

Convict shipboard paper en route from England to Western Australia.

Information Sources:                            

Bibliography: William Irvin, Journals on board the convict ships Palmerston, 1861, Belgravia, 28th Apr. 1866-23rd June, 1866 and Norwood, 27th Apr.-6th July, 1867 [microform], reproduction of typescript.

Locations:  State Library of Western Australia; thanks to Annette Delbianco of the SLWA.

The Beehive (UT, 1887-1889)

June 20, 2011

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The Beehive, UT, 1887

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  St. George, UT

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. 1, No. 5 and No.8; Vol. 2, No. 1, January 4, 1887; Vol. 2, No.2,  January 15, 1887; Vol. 2,  No. 3; Vol.2, No. 4,  December 20, 1887; Vol. 4, No. 2,  Feb 15, 1887; Vol. 4, No. 5, April 10,1888; Vol. 5, No. 12,  March 12,1889; Vol 7, No.2; Vol.? No.8

Size and Format:  Legal/ledger size lined pages, one column

Editor/Publisher:  Belle McArthur (March 12, 1889), Julie Macdonald (Vol. 2, No. 4, 1887), Miss F. DeFriez (Vol. 4, No. 5, April 10, 1888)

Title Changes and Continuation: None

The Beehive, UT, 1887

General Description & Notes:

This was a Mormon Ladies Improvement Society publication. Multiple extant copies of The Beehive are in various states of readability. Most issues have an illustrated masthead, but otherwise blank title page. The stories are in neat cursive writing on lined ledger paper

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Utah State Historical Society, Mss A 1053

The Beehive, UT, Vol. 2, No. 3, N.D.

Bee, Honey (OR, No date)

June 20, 2011

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See HONEY BEE

The Battleford Fluke (SK, 1897)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1897

Size and Format:  Single page

Editor/Publisher: Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

None

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  Saskatchewan Archives, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Laurie Family Papers (S-A668)

Barometer (MA-CA, 1849)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Shipboard Edward Everett (1849)

Frequency:  Weekly, every Saturday

Volume and Issue Data:  The Edward Everett departed Boston Jan. 13, 1849

Size and Format:  Four pages, handwritten

Editor/Publisher:  “A board of five editors was responsible for the journal” (Lewis); members of the Boston and California Joint Mining and Trading Company en route to the California gold fields

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description & Notes:

According to Lewis, the first organized contingent to leave Boston for the California gold fields was the Boston and California Joint Mining and Trading Company.  The group sailed from Boston aboard the Edward Everett, a 700-ton “fast-ship,” on January 13, 1849.  The company of 150 men, included eight sea captains, four doctors, a clergyman, a mineralogist, a geologist, merchants, manufacturers, farmers, artisans and medical and divinity students.

The Edward Everett was a relatively new ship (approximately six years old) and well equipped.  The bunks below deck were named after Boston localities.  To combat boredom at sea, numerous regularly scheduled activities were organized, including a musical band, a weekly newspaper, Sunday and mid-week church services, and lectures.

The ship’s newspaper Barometer was intended to circulate the ship’s news among the passengers and the crew, and to publish “original contributions in prose and verse.”  Lewis calls the Barometer, “probably the earliest of the gold-ship ‘newspapers'” (p. 89).  According to Lewis, the Barometer was

a four-page hand-written sheet issued every Saturday during the voyage of the Edward Everett.  A board of five editors was responsible for the journal, the columns of which were filled with daily happenings on the ship, together with a record of her position and speed, and a leavening of lighter fare in the form of “original prose and poetical matter.”

Lewis notes that this and other shipboard newspapers (see, e.g., EMIGRANT, THE PETREL, and SHARK) “lacked the formality of print but more nearly approached conventional journalism” than the various travel journals and diaries kept during the voyages.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Oscar Lewis, Sea Routes to the Gold Fields:  The Migration by Water to California in 1849-1852 (New York:  A.A. Knopf, 1949), pp. 89-92; Roy Atwood, “Shipboard News: Nineteenth Century Handwritten Periodicals at Sea,” Paper Presentation to the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 1997.

Locations:  Bancroft Library, CA?

 

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The Bark Shanty Times (MI, ca. 1857)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Bark Shanty or Port Sanilac, Michigan

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data: In the papers of Uri Urich Raymond, 1857-1883

Size and Format:  “Foolscap size and numbers about 200 pages”

Editor/Publisher:  Multiple, Uri Urich Raymond was a contributor

Title Changes and Continuation:  Port Sanilac Times

General Description & Notes:

According to a transcription produced by Cathi B. Campbell in 2005, Oliver Raymond (relative of Uri Urich Raymond) give a brief history of the town, key settlers and the paper: “Bark Shanty was the original name for Port Sanilac, and the Times was the first institution for the public weal. No types or presses were needed to conduct this enterprise; it was self executing and the editor was not howling continually for the subscribers to pay up. The community in general took a hand in editing the paper but Mr. U. Raymond acted as janitor and property man, though he disclaims any responsibility for its publications. He simply allowed blank writing paper to remain on the counter of his store and any and all were at liberty to write anything they chose and the public were at equal liberty to go and read without money and without price. As the pages were written they were sewed together. It is of foolscap size and numbers about 200 pages.”[emphasis added]

The book, Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State (1941), has a description of the paper and explanation of its role in the community (available through Google Books)

Information Sources:

Bibliography: Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State (Michigan Administrative Board, 1941), p. 458.

Locations:  Manuscript Holdings, Bentley Historical Library, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Library of Congress entry: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn97070569/

El Balsero [The Rafter] (Cuba, 1994-95)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication: Refugee Detention Camp, Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo (Spanish), officially known as U.S. Naval Station, Guantánamo Bay (commonly called GTMO, or “Gitmo,” in military jargon), Cuba

Frequency:  Irregular

Volume and Issue Data:  1994-1995

Size and Format:  Variable

Editor/Publisher: Juan Avilés Castaigne (PoLO) (?) and others

Title Changes and Continuation: None; see other (related?) Cuban Refugee papers from this same place and period: Exodo and El Bravo

General Description and Notes:

The cover and additional pages from one of the Cuban rafter refugee newspapers entitled El Balsero (The Rafter) are part of a collection of handwritten papers published by Cuban refugees detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, during the so-called “Cuban Refugee Boat Crisis” in the mid-1990s. Intercepted by U.S. Coast Guard ships, as many as 30,000 Cuban refugees floating on makeshift vessels were taken to U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, under the orders of U.S. President Bill Clinton’s administration. While detained and unsure of their futures, some of the Cuban detainees produced handwritten newspapers and other political and cultural materials on the base. Beginning in May 1995, the Clinton administration decided to allow the majority of the detainees to immigrate to the USA.

The caption on the newspaper’s front page (shown above) reads “Goodbye Guantánamo, the most beautiful land that eyes have seen.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  “The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon,” website, http://balseros.miami.edu/ (accessed, December 1, 2022), University of Miami, Miami, Florida; see also the Caribbean Sea Migration collection, 1959-2014, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, NC: https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/caribbeansea (contains original black-and-white pen and ink drawing by Juan Avilés Castaigne (PoLO) showing Bill Clinton as a spider with rafters caught in net, 1995 March 14, https://repository.duke.edu/dc/caribbeansea/csmep02016

Locations:  From the collection of Siro del Castillo, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami

Auburn Reporter (AR, 1881)

June 20, 2011

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Auburn Reporter, AR, 1881, p. 1

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Town now defunct.  Sebastian County near Ft. Smith, Arkansas

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  extant copy: Vol. 1, No. 1, Dec. 30, 1881

Size and Format: 10.5 x 7 inches

Editor/Publisher: Unknown “editress”

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description & Notes:

See attached images. One irony in the introductory statement of No. 1, the editor indicates that the paper will keep the “public posted in what transpires in & about the Thriving City from our Paper derives its name” (sic). The town Auburn is now defunct.

Auburn Reporter, AR, 1881, p. 2

The first page includes briefs on the activities of several individuals. The second page’s top story is about a “bad accident on Christmas eve.” The bottom of the page two and all of page three contain more brief anecdotes about individuals. The fourth and last page invites subscribers:

“If you would keep up with the times, Subscribe for the Reporter for $1 a year.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Auburn Reporter, AR, 1881, p. 4

Locations:  Arkansas Newspaper Project.  Extant copy at Arkansas Historical Commission, Little Rock, AK

Auburn Reporter, AR, 1881, p. 3

Atlantian Journal (IN, 1845-1848)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Terre Haute, Indiana

Frequency:  Weekly

Volume and Issue Data:  Three volumes, 1845-1848

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  The Terre Haute Atlantian Literati

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description & Notes:

The journal consists of writings on Indiana and midwestern history, travel accounts, and essays on literary and social topics.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  William Henry Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN

Athabasca Journal and English River Inquirer (SK, 1845)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Bear Island Lake, on the upper Churchill (or English) River north of Lac la Ronge, Saskatchewan

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  August 8, 1845

Size and Format:  11 pages, foolscap

Editor/Publisher:  Bernard Rogan Ross

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description & Notes:

According to The Beaver magazine, Bernard Rogan Ross tried to relieve the monotony of a trip by York boat over the regular route of the old fur trade by writing a newspaper, couched in the journalistic style of the period, about the doings of the people of his brigade of three boads proceeding slowly up the Churchill or English River towards Methy Passage.  Although his writing is extremely fine and small, the issue of Aug. 8, 1845, of this Athabasca Journal and English River Inquirer, as he called it, took up 11 closely-written pages of foolscap.  It was preserved by his daughter, (Mrs. George A. Graham) and later published in part of the Fort William Daily Times-Journal of Dec. 27, 1928.

The paper is dated at Bear Island Lake, on the upper Churchill north of Lac la Ronge, in what is now Saskatchewan, and carries the announcement that the next issue would be published the following week at Ile a la Crosse.  The price is stated to be six pence per customer payable, not in cash, but in Saskatchewan pemmican.

The first page is devoted to “Shipping Intelligence,” and included news of ship arrivals and gossip about the Dutchess of Kent.  During this period, the Oregon boundary question was hot news.  As this paper was written, however, the issue had been settled two months earlier.  Without this knowledge, Ross wrote that he suspected the Americans would start a war over the issue.  He warned the southerners that Canada could not only defend itself, but could “lay waste the North-western States with fire and sword, nor cease until the British flag waved triumphantly thoughout the Union.”

Chief Trader Bernard R. Ross, F.R.G.S., was only 18 years old when he wrote this account, and this was apparently his first trip west.  He became a well known naturalist (Ross’s Goose), an anthropologist, and a prolific contributor to the British Museum and Smithsonian Institution.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Bernard Rogan Ross, “Fur Trade Gossip Sheet,” The Beaver:  Magazine of the North (Spring 1955)

Locations:  Cited in the Fort William Daily Times-Journal, Dec. 27, 1928; location of copy mentioned in The Beaver preserved by Ross’s daughter is unknown


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The Argus (PEI, 1885)

June 20, 2011

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See The Pownal Argus

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Annapolitan (MD, 1853)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Annapolis, Maryland

Frequency:  Monthly

Volume and Issue Data:  July 1853

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  J.N. Myers

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description & Notes:

None

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Original held at the Erie Historical Museum, Erie, PA.  Photocopy at Maryland State Archives, Hall of Records, 350 Rowe Blvd., Annapolis, MD . 

Amherst Juvenile (MA, 1874)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Amherst, Massachusetts

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1874, Vol. 1, nos. 1,2,3 (12 pp.)

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher: Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

Children’s Paper.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Bliss family Papers, Box 2, folder 30, Amherst College Library Archives (see

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma21_list.html),

Amherst, MA

The American Youth (NJ, 1884)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Newark, NJ

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. III, No. 23, April, 12, 1884

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  “published by W.V. Belknap”

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

New Jersey Historical Society has classified it as a “manuscript boys’ newspaper”

Information Sources

Bibliography: None

Locations:  New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ, MG25

Amateur Gazette (MA, 1874-1882?)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  New England (likely Massachusetts)

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data: Unknown

Size and Format: Size unknown, this may be letterpress with some handwritten corrections or addenda

Editor/Publisher:  John Green Oliver (? – Letter calls the Amateur Gazette “his letterpress”)

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown (possibly The Monthly Meteor)

General Description and Notes:

Letterpress compiled in a scrapbook by John Green Oliver of Worcester, MA, from 1874 to 1882, including newspapers of other members of the New England Amateur Journalists’ Association and assorted ephemera and memorabilia of his press activities, all in meticulous emulation of professional job printing and the fraternal culture thereof.

One of the newspapers in this collection, according to Sarah M. Black, Smith College Rare Book Room assistant (as of 1993), is Vol. 1, No. 1 of The Monthly Meteor, Dec. 1881 (28 pp.), including wrappers, which is “printed by hectography with holograph touch-ups and is thus partially handwritten and certainly a hand-made facsimile of a manuscript original.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Rare Book Room, William Allan Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Alma Courier (MO, 1880s)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication: Alma, Missouri

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1880s

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher: Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

According to Jolliffee and Whitehouse, the Alma Courier was “reportedly a community paper emanating from the Alma Public School in the early 1880s.” They report that “it was published frequently and regularly, included a variety of news stories in each issue, and displayed a recognizable title and format.”

Local historian Garrison notes that the paper was “all written by hand on good quality of essay paper and tied at the top with pink and blue silk ribbons.” It included area and school news, editorials and small advertisements.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Lee Jolliffe and Virginia Whitehouse, “Handwritten Newspapers on the Frontier? The Prevalence Problem, ” paper presented at the AEJMC History Division Mid-Year Meeting, Columbia, MO, 1994; Milton Garrison, A History of Alma (privately published, 1936), Harvey J. Higgins Historical Society, Higginsville, MO.

Locations:  None

The Alliance Ohio (OH, 1893)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Ohio?

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1893

Size and Format:  Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Grange Society

Title Changes and Continuation:  Unknown

General Description and Notes:

Grange Society newspaper.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  Ohio Historical Society,  Columbus, OH

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