Online Bibliography and Global Guide to Handwritten Publications
July 30, 2011
Alphabetical Order, New York, No Date, S, Uncategorized, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Rivermouth and Sunboro, NY
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Unknown
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
None
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Newspapers and Periodicals, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
July 30, 2011
1893, Alphabetical Order, Commercial Papers, Idaho, Images, Organization Newspapers, S, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Soldier, Idaho
Frequency: Weekly (monthly?)
Volume and Issue Data: Two issues extant: Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 13, 1893, and No. 2? Feb 10, 1893
Size and Format: 8 x 13 inches; one column; two pages
Editor/Publisher: Soldier Literary Society
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
The paper’s motto, written just below the title, on both extant copies is “Hew to the line, let chips fall where they may.” The first issue states that “in obedience to the gracious request of the Soldier Literary Society, we assume the publication of a paper in promoting the interests of that Society, and will present our first number this evening, under the title of the ‘Soldier Weekly News.'”
“We make our editorial bow on the sea of journalism, with some misgivings as to our untried ability to please all, but with the aid of the members of this Society and an earnest effort on our part, we hope to issue weekly, a journal which may interest and amuse each and every member of this Society.
“In politics the news will be strictly independent.
“Contributions, other than objectional or personally abusive articles, solicited from members of the Society. Any article calculated to injure the feelings of any member of our Society or any citizen of our place will not be accepted. As many of the ‘home staff’ possess decided talent in the journalistic line, we may expect newsy and interesting contributions. Having secured a corps of able correspondents we promise our readers the cream of legislative news from Boise, as well as events of interest in all (remainder of line illegible)” (from page one, first issue, Jan. 13, 1893).
The extant copies contain “Local News” shorts, “Notes from neighboring places,” appeals for advertisements and an obituary.
The “Notes from neighboring places” section of the Feb. 10 issue begins, “Telegrams from up the Creek.”
The Feb. 10 issue notes, “We are pleased to record that the circulation of the ‘Soldier Weekly-News‘ is rapidly increasing and advertisements coming in liberally. It affords us much pleasure to see our paper thus appreciated. We entertain the ambition ere the close of 1893 of securing the largest circulation of any paper in Idaho.
“We are not giving to our readers a larger amount of news, local and foreign than any paper in Idaho (sic) the state.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Idaho State Historical Society, Boise, ID
July 30, 2011
1864, Alphabetical Order, Images, Kansas, Military Papers, S, United States, US Civil War-Era Papers Leave a comment
SOLDIER’S LETTER: SECOND COLORADO CAVALRY
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Kansas City and Fort Riley, Kansas
Frequency: Weekly
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, Nos. 1-50, 1864-1865
Size and Format: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; four pages, four columns; pages 1, 2, and 4 were printed, but page 3 was blank for individual soldiers to make personal comments or statements
Editor/Publisher: Printed content’s editor and proprietor, Oliver V. Wallace
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
The Soldier’s Letter was a regimental paper published between 1864 and 1865 for the Second Colorado Cavalry: “A Regimental Paper–To Accompany the Regiment.” The paper was priced at 10 cents per single copy. The paper’s motto, “The Flag We Fight Under,” was accompanied by a Union flag graphic.
Published at Kansas City and Fort Riley, Kansas, the printed pages included poetry, history and specific military news items. Letters were also included, as were extracts from the Journal of Commerce, Illustrated News, and Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Several items discussed aspects of the Civil War. Letters from Fort Larned, Kansas, described problems with Indian attacks and illnesses.
The blank pages contained the comments and statements of soldiers in the regiment. The handwritten pages included news items, poetry and proverbs. Vol. 1, No. 20, dated March 18, 1865, addresses “Young Men.” They are encouraged to maintain high morals and to take as their “motto: self-reliance, honesty and industry.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Western History Department, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
July 30, 2011
1919, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Massachusetts, S, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
THE SOCIETY CAT
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Unknown
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1919-20
Size and Format: approximately 20 pp.
Editor/Publisher: Hale Family
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Children’s project.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library, Northampton, MA
July 25, 2011
1890, Alphabetical Order, Emergency-Disaster Response Papers, Frontier Papers, Nevada, S, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: On Southern Pacific Railroad near Reno
Frequency: Irregular daily, “every week-day afternoon”
Volume and Issue Data: Vol.1, No. 1, Jan. 31, 1890-Feb.1890?
Size and Format: Four pages; outside pages were printed in blue ink, inside pages were written in pencil; manila paper.
Editor/Publisher: “S.P. Prisoner in Car No. 36, blockaded at Reno, Nevada,” aka George T. McCully
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
The Snowbound, as its names suggests, appeared after a blizzard blocked the pass routes through the Sierra Nevadas for 600 passengers aboard a Southern Pacific train. According to Lingenfelter, passenger George T. McCully “sought to relieve the anxious weeks of waiting by printing a newspaper for his fellow passengers.” Highton claims, however, that the printer of The Snowbound was unknown and that the paper printed before the train left Reno Jan. 30, although it was dated Jan. 31.
In any case, the first number of The Snowbound aspired to be “issued every week-day afternoon by S.P. Prisoner in Car No. 36, blockaded at Reno, Nevada” as “A Souvenir of the Sierra Nevada Blockade 1890.” It was both printed and handwritten: the outside pages were printed in blue ink; the inside pages were written in pencil. It is not known if the paper continued after its first number.
“The Two Inside Pages”–contain the matter which appeared in original issue of “THE SNOWBOUND” published on manilla paper and written with lead pencil. The outside pages were made up to complete a four page paper, which we take pleasure to issue, at the request of the passengers as a souvenir of the blockade. in addition to regular copies, we present them with one “proof” copy on plate paper…. (p.4)
“The editor [thanks] the Reverend William Appel, messrs. L.W. Harmons, P.S. Heffleman, Ernest Block, H.K. Pratt and others who kindly assisted to make entertaining to those especially who were in the blockade, the columns of our little souvenir, “THE SNOWBOUND.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Phillip I. Earl, “Unique newspaper born of 1890 snow blockade in Reno,” Sparks Tribune, Nov. 30, 1983, p. 4; Jake Highton, Nevada Newspaper Days: A History of Journalism in the Silver State (Stockton, Calif.: Heritage West Books, 1990), pp. 97; Richard E. Lingenfelter, The Newspapers of Nevada (San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1964), 72-73; Richard E. Lingenfelter and Karen R. Gash, The Newspapers of Nevada (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1984). (p.4, col.2) in article “SP No.38”–“…N.J. Weaver correspondent of the New York Herald, has done his part towards enlightening the world, giving the Herald three solid columns of our misery.”
Locations: Jan. 31, 1890: CHi; CSmH; CU-B; NvHi
July 25, 2011
1869, Alphabetical Order, S, School Newspapers, United States, Utah, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Smithfield, UT
Frequency: Weekly
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 2, Nos. 1-6, Oct. 24-Nov. 28, 1869
Size and Format: 2.5 columns on 8.5”x14” lined paper, one issue with an extra 8”x10” and another with a 5”x7” poem
Editor/Publisher: Louisa L. Greene
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Motto: “Remember Thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth.”
The manuscript paper, Smithfield Sunday School Gazette, was a weekly paper edited from Oct. 24 to Nov. 28, 1869, by Louisa L. Greene, who later became founding editor of the Woman’s Exponent, a Mormon publication for women. The Exponent was never an organ of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, as the authors of The Story of the Latter-day Saints state on p. 336.
Copies of the Smithfield paper for the above dates are in the archives of the Mormon Church Historical Library in Salt Lake City. Content of the papers included news of Sunday School members and of the community, with some literary efforts by the editor and her helpers. The paper was distributed at Sunday School meetings. Greene would have been about 20 years old in 1869.
(The above information was provided by Prof. Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California)
According to the Olsons, the Sunday School was organized in Smithfield on Sunday, April 15, 1866, with Francis Sharp as superintendent. There were 69 pupils in eight classes, with a teacher for each group….(40)
The Sunday School took charge of the May Day celebrations, the July celebrations, edited the Smithfield Sunday School Gazette, opened the first library there, and in general played an active part in the life of the Mormon community.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: James Allen and Glen Leonard, The Story of the Latter-Day Saints (Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Deseret Book Co., 1976), p. 336; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Olson, eds., The History of Smithfield [Utah] (Smithfield: City of Smithfield, 1927), pp.40-43
Locations: Mormon Church Historical Library Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah (Ms D 2918, Box 17, fd 17)
July 25, 2011
1868, Alaska, Alphabetical Order, Commercial Papers, Community Papers, Frontier Papers, Images, S, United States Leave a comment
Publication History
Place of Publication: Sitka, Alaska Territory
Frequency: Weekly (irregular)
Volume and Issue Data: Sept. 19, 1868, 1:1; Oct. 19, 1868, 1:6; Oct. 31, 1868, 1:7; Nov. 7, 1868, 1:8
Size and Format: 8 x 12 in.; two cols.; four pages; cursive pen and ink.
Editor/Publisher: Thomas G. Murphy, aka “Barney O. Ragan” or “Regan”
Title Changes and Continuations: The Sitka Times (Sept. 19, 1868-Nov. 7, 1868) continued as Alaska Times (printed), 1869-1870.
General Description and Notes:
Editor Murphy (“Regan”) claimed The Sitka Times was “the first paper published in Alaska.” The “introductory” column on page two outlines the editor’s intention to publish local news and to promote the general economic development of the region:
“To day we present the Sitka Times to the citizens of Sitka and the world at large. It is the first attempt ever made to publish a paper in this vast land of Alaska. The Times will be devoted to local and general news. We shall, when we deem it practicable, discuss all question of public interest, touching the affairs about Alaska. In Politics and Religion the Times will be neutral. The Pacific Rail Road we are in favor of and would love to hear the scream of its whistle echoed from the peaks of Alaska, and the musical strain of humanity shouting a chorus of ‘Let the iron horse speed along with its precious burden of emigration.’ We are strongly in favor of a civil government and strictly opposed to military rule. Give Alaska a civil government, you may soon expect to hear of rich minerals having been fully developed by our latent industry, but not before.
“Having no ‘devil’ in our office the ‘Times‘ should be virtuous.
“As our local items will be few we shall spare no pains in giving a well defined description of all fights; recording in language of flowers the matrimonial pursuits of mankind; with the respectful details of those, whose souls have fled to the ‘spirit land'” (1:1, p. 2, cols. 1 and 2a).
The editor explained and defended the handwritten format of his paper in the first “Editorial:”
“The appearance of the ‘Times‘ being written instead of printed will perhaps cause many a laugh. In olden times a laugh would be out of place, as written pamphlets and the town crier were the means alone employed of conveying news, as no [?] parties at that time had been established by the fair.
“To invest in the purchase of a press would incur great expense and until we see better inducements than are now offered, a press can be dispensed with, although the copying of even so small a sheet, as this is, requires much labor and some means.
“Our budget in producing such a paper is not with the view of making a fortune, but chiefly if possible to gratify the citizens of our Town and for this we shall do our best” (1:1, p. 2, col. 2)
The paper’s script is relatively large and the cursive hand is quite legible. The front page of the first number includes a large, bold name and masthead and the rest is advertisements for Sitka businesses. Page two is the editor’s introductory comments and the editorial. Page three covers seven local news stories including ship arrivals and departures. The fourth and last page is even divided between local news and advertisements.
According to Hinckley, Murphy was known by contemporaries as a “politician, lawyer, priest, editor, printer, author and poet.” He organized early efforts to establish a civil government for the territory and was elected by a small but apparently unrepresentative group to head the new government. Within three days a second vote removed Murphy from office. He later became the city attorney.
Murphy eventually imported a printing press, but had insufficient money to print his newspaper. The Sitka mayor invested the necessary funds and, on April 23, 1869, Murphy edited the first printed issue of the (retitled) Alaska Times.
Information Sources
Bibliography: Ted C. Hinckley, The Americanization of Alaska, 1867-1897 (Palo Alto, Calif.: Pacific Books, Publishers, 1972), 39-46; Nichols, “History of Alaska Under Rule of the United States,” (1924), 426; James Wickersham, A Bibliography of Alaska Literature, 1724-1924 (Cordova, Ak.: Cordova Daily Times Print, 1927), 253-254.
Locations: Cu-B; DLC (photocopy, 1:1 only); Territorial Library-Juneau.
July 25, 2011
1902, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Pennsylvania, S, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
THE SIGN OF THE FOUR MONTHLY
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Haverford, PA?
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Unknown
Size and Format: 32 pages
Editor/Publisher: Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
Title Changes and Continuation: Possible continuations include The Weekly News (85 pp.), The Weekly Herald and The Herald (82 pp.) and The Family News (352 pp.) between 1902 and 1906.
General Description and Notes:
One of five newspapers produced by Christopher Morley and contained in the Morley Family Papers Collection at Haverford College, PA.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: The Morley Collection, Manuscripts, The Quaker Collection, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
July 25, 2011
Alaska, Alphabetical Order, Frontier Papers, Mining Camp Papers, S, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Chisana, Alaska
Frequency: Daily, but irregular
Volume and Issue Data: Unknown
Size and Format: Ledger sheets
Editor/Publisher: “A placer miner named McGillicuddy” (Davis, 1976)
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
According to Davis, a placer miner named McGillicuddy issued the Shushana News from a cabin eight miles from his nearest neighbor. He owned the only radio in the area and would take notes of broadcasts, then rewrite his notes on ledger sheets. A dog at a camp eight miles away had been trained to fetch McGillicuddy’s daily and return it to the camp. McGillicuddy handed the paper to the dog, neatly rolled in a strong wrapper, and the newsdog would return to its master at the camp with the latest radio news reports. The dog’s master would then post the paper where everyone else in the camp could read it. On at least one occasion, the dog returned without the paper, but was punished and produced the missing paper.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Phyllis Davis, A Guide to Alaska’s Newspapers (Juneau, Alaska: Gastineau Channel Centennial Association and Alaska Division of State Libraries and Museums, 1976), p 14.
Locations: No copies located
July 25, 2011
1972, Alphabetical Order, Arkansas, Community Papers, Images, S, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: NE Arkansas, Sharp County, AR
Frequency: Weekly
Volume and Issue Data: January 18, 1972 through August 9, 1974 (holdings). Paper ceased in 1978.
Size and Format: 8 1/2 x 11, typed text with handwritten headlines and hand-drawn graphics, mimeographed, issues run up to 8 pages.
Editor/Publisher: “a character” : Joseph H. Weston, editor and publisher
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
This was a community paper with a partisan political edge. Text of the paper is typed, and all headlines, sub-heads, graphics, and ads are handwritten and or/hand drawn. The first issue claims the paper is “Sharp County’s only metropolitan newspaper–professional journalism with conscience and vision” (Vol. 1, No. 3, Feb. 1, 1972, adds “with conscience, courage, vision!”). With headlines such as “Is Judge Ransom C. Jones Operating His city Court In Cave City as a Racket Under Order from Elvis” and “Rat Poison Deliberately Fed into Public Drinking Water for More Than a Quarter of a Century,” it is not hard to imagine that the editor invited libel lawsuits. The March 28, 1973 edition (Vol. 2, No. 13) includes “An Appeal for Help” (p. 3) because, as the editor writes, members of the Sharp County political establishment “induced my next door neighbor, to swear out a warrant for my arrest on the antique charge of ‘criminal libel’ for publishing an article in which I attacked our corrupt County Judge Lester Anderson and his crony and gravel contractor, Dickey, with equal vigor. The charge is preposterous, and the law is ridiculous.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Arkansas Historical Commission, Little Rock, AR (collection only has the 1972-74 issues)
July 25, 2011
1849, Alphabetical Order, California, California Gold Rush Papers, Massachusetts, S, Shipboard Papers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Shipboard Duxbury en route to California gold fields from Boston
Frequency: Weekly
Volume and Issue Data: “Issued on The Duxbury throughout the spring of 1849” (Lewis)
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: Possibly continued by The Petrel, after departure from Rio De Janeiro
General Description and Notes:
The Shark seems to be the first handwritten newspaper aboard the Duxbury. Extant copies of The Petrel, published on the Duxbury apparently during the same voyage, were possibly published after the ship’s layover at Rio, although the issue numbering suggests that both papers may have been published contemporaneously.
According to Lewis, the Duxbury left Boston for the California gold fields in February, 1849, carrying the Old Harvard Company, one of the hundreds of New England joint-stock companies organized to capitalize on the gold of California. One writer states that during 1849, 102 joint stock companies sailed from Massachusetts alone, the number of their members ranging from five to 180, the average being around 50, and their total exceeding 4,200. Each member paid an equal sum into the common treasury. Each had an equal voice in its management and stood to reap an equal share of the profits. Often there was also a board of directors, chosen from among the town’s leaders, older men who helped finance the expeditions, but who remained at home. (Lewis, p. 22).
One passenger observed that there was “too much praying on board.” Each morning the Duxbury’s preacher, the Rev. Brierly, read a chapter from the Bible, offered a prayer, and delivered a brief sermon. On Wednesdays he presided over a prayer meeting; on Sundays he preached “a full-length sermon” and followed this with a class discussion group; on Tuesdays and Fridays he conducted a lyceum. This was during the early stages of the voyage; later this comprehensive program collapsed, as it did on so many other ships, and during the final weeks of the Duxbury’s company seems to have been without religious instruction of any kind.
Hard feelings developed between officers and passengers aboard the Duxbury on the first leg of its voyage. The chief complaint was against the food and the manner of service. The Duxbury, an ancient three-masted craft, so hard to maneuver that she was said to require all of Massachusetts Bay in which to turn, left Boston so loaded that the galley space was inadequate. After a week of subsisting on two sparse meals a day, the passengers met and made known their grievances. For a long time their protests were disregarded. “Petition after petition was sent in to the captain without producing any other effect than the reply, ‘If it is not enough, go without.'” The group continued on short rations–“we were allowed one-half pint of weak tea a day and three pounds of sugar a month’–until the Duxbury reached Rio. There a committee of passengers related their troubles to the United States Consul. The result was that the capacity of the galley was ordered enlarged and the passengers thereafter fared rather better.
Lewis notes that this and other shipboard newspapers (see, e.g., Barometer, The Emigrant, and The Petrel) “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. 22-29, 89-92
Locations: Four numbers at the Huntington Library, Manuscripts Division, San Marino, CA; accompanies the published Journal of the Duxbury Voyage, Boston-San Francisco, by William H. DeCosta, 1849, Feb.-June 23 (HM 234)
July 25, 2011
1852, Alphabetical Order, Faith-Specific Papers, Frontier Papers, S, United States, Wisconsin Leave a comment
THE SEWING CIRCLE
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Madison, WI
Frequency:
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, No. 7, June 23, 1852
Size and Format: 13 pages
Editor/Publisher: Published by the Missionary Society and produced by Joanna B. Thompson and Anne B. Sewell, “Editresses”
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
None
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Newspapers, No. SC 2052, Archives, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
July 25, 2011
1860, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, North Carolina, S, United States, US Civil War-Era Papers, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Harrington, NC
Frequency: Presumably “semi-weekly”, as the name suggests; published Tuesdays and Fridays; circa 1860 to 1864
Volume and Issue Data: According to Smith, nine numbers (six issues surviving)
Size and Format: 9 x 11 inches
Editor/Publisher: John McLean Harrington
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
According to Smith, the Semi-Weekly News. contained traditional newspaper content. The paper included politics, poetry, local election results, and other general news items.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Michael Ray Smith, A Free Press in Freehand (Grand Rapids, MI: Edenridge Press, 2011), pp. 8, 46, 73, 74, 108, 211. Additional bibliographic information about this and other Harrington papers contained in Smith.
Locations: John McLean Harrington Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC
July 25, 2011
1860, Alphabetical Order, Illinois, Military Papers, S, United States, US Civil War-Era Papers Leave a comment
Place of Publication: Unknown, but edited by the Eighty-fifth Illinois Regiment
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Unknown
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: “Bayonette” for the Eighty-fifth Illinois Regiment
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
Wiley notes that “soldiers sometimes wrote out small papers for limited distribution. Examples of manuscripts sheets are the ‘Pioneer Banner,’ published ‘semi-occasionally for the young ladies of the Union Female College’ by young Confederates stationed at Fort Barrancas, and the ‘Secesh Eradicator’ edited by ‘Bayonette’ for the Eighty-fifth Illinois Regiment” (p. 161).
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Bell Irvin Wiley, They Who Fought Here (NY: Bonanza Books, 1959), p. 161
Locations: Unknown
Note: Thanks to the late Dr. Richard “Dick” Lentz (Ph.D., Iowa) for alerting me to Wiley’s book and the handwritten newspapers mentioned therein.
July 25, 2011
1856, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Images, New York, S, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Scottsville, NY
Frequency: Weekly
Volume and Issue Data: Several issues from 1856 & 1857. Extant copy of Vol. II, No. 20, May 16, 1857 (pages 77-80)
Size and Format: Legal size, four pages, three columns
Editor/Publisher: Franklin Hanford, Editor and Proprietor (b. Chili, NY, 1844; d. 1936). Extensive biographical information included about him in the Franklin Hanford Papers, University of Rochester, Rare Books and Special Collections (D. 143).
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Produced this newspaper when the editor was 12 years old. Also created The American Monthly Magazine, 1858 (also contained in the author’s archived papers).
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Item No. D.143, Hanford (Franklin) Papers, 1864-1936, Box 35, folder 1; 35 boxes. Rush Rhees Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
July 25, 2011
1857, Alphabetical Order, Frontier Papers, Mining Camp Papers, Nevada, S, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Genoa (Mormon Station), Nevada
Frequency: Probably monthly
Volume and Issue Data: Feb. 1, 1857-ca.Dec. 1857
Size and Format: 12 columns, with illustrations; written in “a large, bold hand”
Editor/Publisher: Stephen A. Kinsey
Title Changes and Continuations: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
According to Lingenfelter and Gash, The Scorpion was the second handwritten newspaper produced in Nevada, following the lead of Joseph Webb’s Gold Canon Switch (ca. 1854). The paper carried the motto: “Fear no man, and do justice to all.” The monthly publication reportedly contained 12 columns of stories and illustrations, including caricatures. The paper said it would “contain a full and extensive digest of all the current news and discussions of the day,” and that “nothing which can interest the general reader will be omitted.”
Lingenfelter and Gash speculate that “the paper probably died before its twelfth number,” a year before the first printed paper, the Territorial Enterprise, appeared in the Nevada territory. The Enterprise reported April 12, 1871 under the headline, “A Curiosity,” that the paper had been shown a copy of The Scorpion. The Enterprise reported that the July 1, 1857 issue of The Scorpion was written in “a large, bold hand.”
Information Sources
Bibliography: Bob Karolevitz, “Pen and Ink Newspapers of the Old West,” Frontier Times, 44:2 (Feb.-Mar., 1970), 31; Robert F. Karolevitz, Newspapering in the Old West: A Pictorial History of Journalism and Printing on the Frontier (New York: Bonanza Books, 1969), p. 115; Jake Highton, Nevada Newspaper Days: A History of Journalism in the Silver State (Stockton, Calif.: Heritage West Books, 1990), pp. 2; Dan De Quille, The Big Bonanza (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947); see also, Territorial Enterprise, April 12, 1871; Richard E. Lingenfelter, The Newspapers of Nevada (San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1964), p. 47; Richard E. Lingenfelter and Karen R. Gash, The Newspapers of Nevada (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1984), p. 89.
Locations: None
July 25, 2011
1857, Alphabetical Order, California, California Gold Rush Papers, Frontier Papers, Humor Papers, Mining Camp Papers, S, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Placerville, California
Frequency: One known issue
Volume and Issue Data: 1857
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
According to Kennedy, the paper may have been humorous.
“The Scorpion was a manuscript paper which roused the ire of a contributor of the Mountain Democrat. In a letter published in that paper on March 27, 1857, the contributor, who signed herself “Manta,” violently belabored the Scorpion. It seems to have been a scandal sheet, published by a group of men who resented the refusal of some young women to dance with them. If the Scorpion was any more venomous than the women who described it, it must have been one of the most poisonous papers on record.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Kennedy, Newspapers of California North Mines, 524
Locations: Unknown
July 24, 2011
1871, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Michigan, S, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Michigan
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1871
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Contained in the manuscript holdings of the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Bentley Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
July 24, 2011
Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, New Jersey, No Date, S, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: New Jersey
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: No date, Vol. 1, No. 1.
Size and Format: 4 pages
Editor/Publisher: Henry A. Howe and Andrew M. Macy.
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Extant, but may not be legible if copied.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Manuscripts, MG 25, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ
July 24, 2011
1824, Alphabetical Order, Connecticut, S, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Hartford, CT, Hartford Female Seminary
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, numbers 1-14 and Vol. 2, numbers 1-2, dated 1824-26
Size and Format: 64 pages total.
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation:
General Description and Notes:
Written by students at the seminary which was founded by Catharine E. Beecher (1800-1878), sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: The Stowe-Day Foundation Library, Hartford, CT
Gazette-Extr., Philadelphia, 1846; attributed to Herman Melville; courtesy of Prof. Roger Stritmatter, Dept. of Humanities, Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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