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

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

The Algona Bee (IA, 1857-1858)

June 20, 2011

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The Algona Bee (IA, 1858)

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Algona (Kossuth County), Iowa (ca. 1857-1858)

Frequency:  Weekly; irregular

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. 1, No. 1, Dec. 21, 1857 (note:  another date, Jan. 8th, 1858 is marked out above the Dec. 21 entry)

Size and Format:  8 1/2 x 11 inches; two columns

Editor/Publisher:  Franklin McCoy; Algona Reading Club (et al.?)

Title Changes and Continuation:  Unknown

General Description & Notes:

The Bee was apparently produced by the Algona Reading Club, identified as editors and proprietors (see Vol. 1, No. 8, Feb. 8, 1858).  This number lists the paper’s office at “the wickeup No. 1 West State St. immediately West of the Post Office,” and identifies Franklin McCoy as “publisher.”  However, other pages (many of which are almost illegible) mention an “editress.”

The paper contains poetry, anecdotes, editorials and short story items.  The clear difference in handwriting style and script size between the numbers suggests at least two different writers were responsible for the paper’s production.  The first issue opens with the following introductory editorial:

“We are happy to present to our friends this first number of ‘The Bee’ as the first paper published in this ‘little world of Algona,’ and tho [sic] now small and may-be insignificant in the eyes of many–still we have sanguine hopes that it will thrive–and before many years stand the first and oldest among our village papers.  A person when first starting in an enterprise like this feels rather delicately.  Many fears arise wether [sic] the paper will suit the readers.  Knowing there are as many minds as persons and also knowing, that unless all these minds are satisfied, we are the losers, we feel still more anxiety than we would otherwise.

“The Bee is intended to be strictly a neutral paper.  We shall strive to please all by offending none.  It will abound in wit and humor–be graced with sound intellectual studies and pleasing stories–have all the news of the day–we hope none of the gossip [original emphasis].  We have able correspondents for the Bee who will favour it with their productions from time to time.  A few advertisements will be inserted just to help pay expenses.  We have tried to tell you imperfectly however what we shall strive to make the Bee, and we humbly beg our friends to stand by us and not allow it to sink into obscurity as the paper in our neighboring community has done.”

The Feb. 8, 1858 issue says, “The Bee is published weekly, but if the stories do not improve soon it will be published only Semi Occasionally.”  The editor also notes that “Business cards of not more than five lines in length published for the sake of the fun, flair and fancy.  Job work neatly executed upon reasonable terms.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  Harvey Ingham Papers, Vol. 2, Box 2, Iowa State Historical Society, Des Moines, IA

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Alexandrian Eclectic Review (NJ, 1884)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Newark, New Jersey

Frequency: Unknown

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

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  W.V. Belknap

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

A manuscript boys’ newspaper.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ

Alexandrian Eclectic Review (MA, 1831)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Amherst College, Amherst Massachusetts

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1831 vol. 1, no.4

Size and Format:  2 pages

Editor/Publisher:  Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

Student paper.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Amherst College Library Archives, Special Collections, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.

Alaska Forum (AK, 1900-1906)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Rampart, Alaska (1900-1906)

Frequency:  Weekly

Volume and Issue Data:  Sept. 27, 1900-Aug. 4, 1906

Size and Format:  8 x 10 inches; 2 cols; 4 pages

Editor/Publisher:  W.R. Edwards, editor (1900); J.B. Wingate, editor (1901-1906), manager (1900-1906)

Title Changes and Continuation:  Occasionally cited as the Rampart Forum

General Description & Notes:

According to McLean, Edwards promoted mining stock and Wingate was a mining recorder, mail carrier and miner then they started printing the Alaska Forum.  The partnership lasted only five months, with Edwards leaving to start the rival Rampart Miner six months later (The Miner last only about one year).  By July 1904, however, the local Episcopal Church recalled the iron printing press Wingate leased to publish the Forum, intending to lease to the promoters of a new paper, the Yukon Valley News.  Wingate fought the termination of his lease in court, but failed in his claims.  Wingate, without a press, tried to continue to publish the Forum to hold off his new rival.  Using old copies of his paper as a base, he pasted over the previous week’s news handwritten and typewritten material reproduced on a hectograph machine.  The absence of old copies of the Forum and the difficulties of publishing the manual versions led to a two-month suspension of the paper.  Wingate resumed printing the Forum when he had a new, foot-powered press built.  The shafts and fixtures of the press had been turned on a lathe run by dog-power, leading Wingate to refer to his printing plant as a “five-dog-power press.”

The Forum cost 25 cents and contained advertising, local news, especially stories related to mining, editorials, and occasional attacks on the Episcopal Church, judges (particularly Judge Wickersham, compiler of the Bibliography on Alaskan Literature, who had ruled against Wingate’s bid to keep the Episcopal press) and others Wingate opposed.  The tone of the paper became noticeably more strident after the loss of the printing press.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Dora E. McLean, Early Newspapers on the Upper Yukon Watershed:  1894-1907, unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Alaska, 1963, 44-56; James Wickersham, A Bibliography of Alaska Literature, 1724-1924 (Cordova, AK:  Cordova Daily Times Print, 1927), 251.

Locations:  AlHi-Juneau, AK

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The Agate (MI, 1846)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Fort Wilkins, Michigan

Frequency:  NA

Volume and Issue Data:  1846

Size and Format:  NA

Editor/Publisher:  NA

Title Changes and Continuation:  Unknown

General Description and Notes:

The records from Fort Wilkins include The Agate.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  Bentley Historical Library, Manuscript Holdings, Fort Wilkins Records (1846), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

The Advocate (UT, 1888)

June 20, 2011

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Holden, Utah (Holden Ward, Millard Stake)

Frequency:  Bi-monthly

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol.2 No.2  March 10, 1888

Size and Format:  ledger/legal size lined page, one column

Editor/Publisher:  B.H. Stringam and John Wood

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

 General Description & Notes:

According to Chad Flake, dozens of illusive newspapers sprang up in small towns which could not justify a printed paper, or were predecessors to the printed newspaper.  One such was The Advocate, circulated in Holden, Utah, in the late 1880’s.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Chad, Flake, “Early Utah Journalism:  A Brief Summary,” in Utah Newspapers–Traces of Her Past, ed. by Robert P. Holley. Utah Newspaper Project, Salt Lake City–Marriott Library, 1984.

Locations:  Mormon Archives, Salt Lake City, UT

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The Advocate (ID, 1879)

June 20, 2011

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The Advocate (ID, 1879)

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Placerville, Granite Creek, Boise City, Baker City and Idaho City, Idaho

Frequency:   Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  May 16, 1879

Size and Format:  8 x 13 inches; one column

Editor/Publisher:  Thomas Haney, editor and manager; other editors listed on title page from respective towns (see below); P.D. Rothwell, teacher

Title Changes and Continuation:  Unknown

General Description & Notes:

This school newspaper consisted of a series of student essays.  It is unclear how the paper was organized or produced, but several student editors from various towns in southern Idaho apparently contributed materials of their own or from students residing in these locales.

The title page-cover is illustrated with a series of nine circles, each filled with the names of the editors/authors, or place names.  The motto of the paper reads, “What is Noble in Man, What is Lovely in Woman.”

The editors from the different schools represented are identified on the title-front page inside circles drawings:

Boise City Editors: Carrie Cartio, Ella Cartio, James Allington, M.B. Givinns(?), A.H. Redway
Placerville Editors: H(?) O’Brien
Baker City Editors: E.L. Sturjill, L.M. Sturjill, J.F. James, Fanny White, M.M. Robbins, A.B. Carter
Idaho City Editors (L): E.A. Kingsley, Lena Broadbeck, Anna G. Galbraith, John P. Barry, Peniel French, Emma Bright
Idaho City Editors (R): Gage Lewis, W.S. Galbraith, Frank McGuinness, Nellie Davis, Jn. E. Craig, A.G. Galbraith (2nd), E.A. Kingsley (2nd).

In one extant essay, “Our School,” a student author notes that the school had desks for 13 students.  The building is described as “very old” and “very dirty.”  “This school house is a very dirty one, the more you scrub it the dirtier it looks.” Even the stove was deemed “very old.”  Despite that, Hannora Halley, the author of the essay, writes “I would rather go to school than to stay home.” She does not identify the locations of her school or home.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  Library and Archives, Idaho State Historical Society, Boise, ID

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