Orleans Independent Standard (Irasburgh, Vt.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
750 issues from 1856 to 1870, published in Barton, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.
The weekly Orleans Independent Standard served readers in Orleans County in northeastern Vermont. Araunah A. Earle established the Standard in Irasburg, the shire town (county seat) in 1856, when the county did not have a locally published paper. Earle was a journeyman printer who had worked for newspapers in New York, Vermont, Oregon and Washington before establishing the Standard, the first of numerous Vermont papers that he published before his death in 1892. After ten years, Earle moved the Standard about six miles to the busier village of Barton. In his December 22, 1866 farewell to Irasburg, Earle looked forward to working and living in “a village where there is life and energy, and liberality, and public spirit,” as well as a railroad connection to help deliver the paper in a more timely fashion. In 1871, Earle sold the Standard to David M.Camp, publisher of the Newport Express, to support his investment in another paper, the St. Johnsbury Times. Camp merged the two Orleans County papers to create the Express and Standard.
As editor and publisher of the Standard, Earle created a successful rural weekly. In 1870, he claimed that the Standard was the largest paper in the county, with a circulation of 1,770. Earle maintained the same general format throughout the paper’s existence, placing literary selections and general interest articles on the front page; editorial opinions, political and news reports on the middle pages; and farm, home, and religious articles on the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Barton, Vermont, 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