Worcester Daily Press (Worcester, Mass.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,479 issues from 1873 to 1878, published in Worcester, Massachusetts, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Worcester Daily Press was published every morning (except Sundays) in Worcester, Massachusetts. Its first issue launched on April 1, 1873, and continued until July 1, 1877, when there was a suspension in production. Printing resumed on October 18, 1877, and it continued until April 27, 1878, when its publication ultimately ended.
In the January 29, 1878 issue, the paper claimed to present the news of the day “accurately, attractively, and as fully as the limits of its columns will permit.” Daily topics included editorial comments, popular interests, and politics. It strived to present its information in a “forcible but not dictatory manner—; plainly, but in terms which need not give offense to those who hold contrary opinions.” The paper outspokenly supported the Democratic party and declared that they reserved and preserved the “right to condemn wrong wherever wrong exists.”
The editors and publishers were listed as Edward R. Fiske and Co. Proprietors. Fiske had previously worked in the printing trade on various newspapers out of Worcester, some of which included the Worcester Palladium, Worcester Republican, Worcester Cataract and Waterfall, and the Worcester State Sentinel. He was additionally connected with the Worcester Transcript and the Worcester Weekly Transcript. Roughly a year and a half after beginning publication, in December of 1874, Fiske resigned as editor and publisher, and he transferred control to his partner John A. Spaulding.
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- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Worcester, Massachusetts, 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