Palisadian (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
672 issues from 1906 to 1927, published in Palisade, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Palisadian began in September 1906 as monthly newspaper in the recently formed Palisade section of Bergen County, NJ. The area was popular with New York commuters as it was on the border of New Jersey and New York and promoted itself as being “ten minutes and ten cents” away from New York. What began as an eight-page, four column paper whose mission, according to its first editorial, was to “note current events in the Palisade section, to present matters of general interest and to be always pure in tone” soon grew to a twenty-page plus monthly village newspaper. The first anniversary issue of the paper says it was never started as a money-making venture but as a chronicler of events.
The newspaper’s founder and editor was Charles T. Logan. Logan began his newspaper career with The Atlanta Constitution, where he was a protégé of Henry W. Grady, before he moved to New York to work with several metropolitan newspapers and then transitioned to advertising with the Beckwith Advertising Agency and with the weekly Editor and Publisher. Logan started the magazine when his son, Charles. T. Logan, Jr., expressed a desire to become a journalist at age fourteen. His son was nominal editor and publisher of the paper initially and later took an active role in gathering and publishing news content. By 1908, he was listed as manager. It was his journalistic efforts which led to his death in 1916 at age 25. He had contracted infantile paralysis (polio) while out with borough officials…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Palisade, 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