The Scranton Tribune (Scranton, Pa.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,815 issues from 1894 to 1902, published in Scranton, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
When the Scranton Tribune first rolled off the presses on the morning of June 20, 1891, three other daily broadsheets already served the city. The Tribune was established as a competitor to the Scranton Republican, which had a record of harassing its political opponents, including William Connell, a local coal operator with a desire to run for elected office. To counter the influence of the Republican, Connell secured the backing of several prominent city residents, purchased a used press, and set about creating his own alternative to the Republican. Four pages long, eight columns wide, and with a price of two cents, the Scranton Tribune featured news, including national and international feeds from the Associated Press, opinion, and plenty of advertisements from local dealers, but no photography. It did not publish on Sundays.
The Tribune prided itself on its readership being both educated and well-to-do, and in both editorials as well as in a self-congratulatory tenth anniversary publication, the paper claimed to espouse “progressive opinions” by championing “Republican principles of government.” In an effort to appeal to the city’s Welsh population, which was the largest in the world outside of Wales, the paper ran articles about the Welsh homeland, people, culture, and literature that occasionally included poems and on October 30, 1897, a local Republican political campaign piece printed in the Welsh language.
Still circulation remained poor, and when E. J. Lynett…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Scranton, 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
- 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