Lancaster Daily Intelligencer (Lancaster, Pa.)

• 1880–1890
• Newspaper

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2,976 issues from 1880 to 1890, published in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.

Founded in 1864, the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer had become by the 1880s the leading daily in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a crusading opposition publication in a city beset with growing pains. It was already one of the oldest continuous newspapers in the state and nation, and by this time it had transformed itself from primarily a political organ into a conduit for local information and an advocate for clean politics and civic reform.

The Intelligencer circulated throughout the county, but its coverage focused mainly on Lancaster city, which had recently grown from a market community for the local farm district into an industrial center. Lancaster’s population increased from about 26,000 in 1880 to 31,000 in 1890. Telephone service arrived in 1880 and electric power in 1886. These changes are chronicled in the newspaper’s pages, as are the problems with civic corruption, immigration, women’s issues, public education, and race relations. The Intelligencer substantially increased its publishing apparatus un 1874, and its eight-column pages were filled with local news items from the tragic to the eccentric, along with advertisements chronicling the history of businesses like that of F. S. Woolworth, who opened his first five-and-dime store in Lancaster in 1879.

The paper’s roots ran back to the Lancaster Journal of 1794, and it already was a veteran institution, associated with the careers of such Civil War-era luminaries as John W. Forney (who edited it), President James…

Genres

News

Published in

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 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

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