The Monmouth Inquirer (Freehold, N.J.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,653 issues from 1865 to 1926, published in Freehold, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
In June of 1865, Colonel Edwin Forrest Applegate changed the name of the Monmouth Herald and Inquirer to the Monmouth Inquirer. The newspaper continued to be a weekly, published on Thursdays. It also remained Republican in outlook, and had a vituperative relationship with the Monmouth Democrat though the editors remained on friendly terms outside of the newspaper business.
On October 30, 1873, the building housing the Inquirer was destroyed by a devastating fire that started at the Inquirer and also destroyed the Courthouse next door, the sheriff’s offices, the jail, the offices of the clerk and surrogate, and numerous businesses and residences. In the immediate aftermath of the fire, the newspaper was issued from the offices of The Monmouth Democrat. It subsequently moved to an office over Mr. White’s stove warehouse for four months. In March of 1874 it relocated to a building on South Street, Freehold. Through the generosity of the New Jersey Editorial Association, $1,258.25 was raised and a Number Three Country press made by Andrew Campbell of Brooklyn was placed in the office, a gift of the members of the Association. Applegate purchased a Degener press and its attachments for doing small job work. Another press that had been in the old office was rebuilt at the Freehold Iron Foundry, and also put to use. Applegate also purchased a Baxter steam engine, manufactured by the Colt Fire Arms Company, and it was used to run all the presses.
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- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Freehold, New Jersey, 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