Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, Conn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
4,382 issues from 1909 to 1922, published in Norwich, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1910, the Norwich Bulletin advertised that it had the largest circulation of any paper in eastern Connecticut and that its readers could be found in “forty-nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postal districts, and forty-one Rural Free Delivery District routes.” A subscription base of around 7,000, the editors claimed, meant that the Bulletin had nearly 40,000 readers a day. A Republican newspaper launched in 1895 during the Progressive Era, the Bulletin overtly courted its two most natural constituencies: the small towns, villages, and rural areas of the eastern part of Connecticut and adjacent Rhode Island, and the banking, industrial, and commercial movers and shakers based in the town of Norwich itself.
The editor of the Norwich Bulletin summarized well the paper’s dual missions. First, the Bulletin would “spare no expense” in the effort to “cover its field” by maintaining 80 regular correspondents in the small centers of the eastern part of Connecticut. Second, the paper would “build and boom” the banking, commercial and industrial center of Norwich. Correspondents from the small towns sent in short reports on local events, social activities, and family news. The feature writer of “A Farmer Speaks to Farmers” commiserated with the beleaguered agriculturalists of the rural areas. At the same time, the Bulletin appears to have been the trusted aggregator of annual reports from the financial institutions, cotton and woolen mills, builders, and arms manufacturers…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Norwich, Connecticut, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress