The Toledo Chronicle (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
274 issues from 1873 to 1878, published in Toledo, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
On April 21, 1856, M.V.B. Kenton published the first issue of Tama County’s first newspaper, the Toledo Tribune. Within the first two years, the paper passed to a number of different editors and proprietors. During this time, the Tribune was mostly politically neutral and was presented as “A family journal – devoted to truth, justice, humanity, and the news of the day.”
In October 1858, Nathan C. Wieting purchased an interest in the Tribune and took full editorial control, changing the title to the Iowa Transcript and aligning it with the Republican Party. After an eight year run, the Transcript ceased publication in 1866 due to financial difficulties. In the final issue, published on November 9, Wieting explained that the paper was no longer sustainable with the amount of advertising and job printing business it had received since much of this work was sent out to larger cities. He wrotes, “We sincerely hope they will see the error of this in the future, and when they secure another press, see the importance of sustaining a home enterprise, instead of a foreign one even should it cost a few cents more.” Wieting moved his printing office to Belle Plaine, Iowa, and established the Belle Plaine Transcript the following month.
By January 1867, a new publication did emerge to take the Toledo Transcript’s place when John T. Rice established the Tama County Republican. Melville True purchased an interest in the paper in July 1868, before buying out Rice to become the sole…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Toledo, 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