Manchester Democrat (Manchester, Iowa)
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1,186 issues from 1899 to 1921, published in Manchester, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Manchester (Iowa) Democrat began weekly publication on January 20, 1875, and continued under a new title, the Manchester Democrat-Radio, from 1930 to 1988. As is evident from its masthead, the Democrat was sympathetic to the views of the Democratic Party and was a response to the Manchester Press, a Republican publication established in 1871.
The Democrat was established by two Manchester residents, about whom little is known: Frank B. Gregg was listed as proprietor and publisher and Lyman L. Ayers held the title of editor. Gregg left the paper within a few months of its first issue, and Ayers lasted a little more than three years as editor. In 1878, the ownership of the Democrat passed to the Democratic Publishing Company, and two Manchester attorneys, Charles E. Bronson and Edward Michael Carr, became editors and proprietors.
The Democrat evolved with Delaware County and the City of Manchester. Situated as a stop on the Illinois Central railroad, the city prospered in the last 25 years of the nineteenth century. It became the county seat in November 1880, as well as a locus of various commercial and manufacturing activities. During this time, the Democrat served about a thousand subscribers and faced stiff competition from a number of other papers in Manchester and its surrounding communities.
From 1890 to 1920, the Democrat reported on the contours of life in Delaware County, making particular note of improvements such as the new high school, public library,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Manchester, Iowa, 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