The East Hartford Gazette (East Hartford, Conn.) 1942-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,107 issues from 1942 to 1963, published in New Britain, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
As East Hartford, Connecticut, grew from an agricultural town centered on tobacco production into a bustling suburb of Hartford, the Weekly Gazette grew from a broad agricultural advisor into a distinct collage of community voices. By his own account, Henry Bidwell Hale founded the Gazette in 1885 after being fired from the now long-defunct Hartford Telegram. The paper cost $1.50 per year from its founding until the 1940s, when it gradually rose in price to $2, and then $3 by 1950.
Through its first few decades, the Gazette's front page covered national and international affairs, followed on subsequent pages by local news organized by town, usually including personal updates on the residents of East Hartford, Hartford, South Windsor, East Windsor, and Glastonbury. Later issues introduced a Live Stock column, featuring advice on keeping farm animals and raising quality crops. In the 1920s, the Gazette began enthusiastically covering technological developments in telephones, automobiles, and televisions, alongside the usual local news coverage and farming tips. Advertisements were often specifically directed at farmers and tobacco growers. Agricultural content ebbed during the 1930s, as the Depression hurt demand for cigars, and by extension, tobacco.
In 1929, Frederick Rentschler, head of the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company in Hartford, moved his operation into a plant on an enormous 1,100-acre lot in East Hartford, complete with a small adjacent airfield for testing…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- New Britain, Connecticut, 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