The Mount Holly News (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,231 issues from 1891 to 1919, published in Mount Holly, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
Harry L. Walters and George W. Hand became proprietors of The News in 1889 when they purchased the paper from J. Howard Clothier, and it then became The Mount Holly News. They were joined in 1892 by Joseph C. Kingdon, who became both editor and proprietor. Kingdon was an experienced newspaper publisher having retired from the New Jersey Mirror of Mt. Holly in 1892 after 29 years with the paper. The Mirror was a prosperous Republican newspaper, the largest weekly in New Jersey, and run by Charles H. Folwell until his death in 1884. Kingdon had started work as a paper carrier, becoming business manager and then editor after Folwell’s death. It was Folwell’s wish that Kingdon control the newspaper until Charles H. Folwell, Jr., a minor at the time of his father’s death, was old enough to become publisher and editor.
Kingdon’s retirement from the Mirror and subsequent employment at the News set up a bitter rivalry. The Mirror and the News were both Republican papers, vying for the same market and advertising dollars. County printing and sheriff’s sales were foundational to a newspaper’s financial success, and the rival newspaper fought over them. Lively and barbed editorial commentary by Folwell at the Mirror and Kingdon at the News was a staple feature of the papers,especially during contested primaries.
Beyond political and local news, the News included society listings, church news, and advertisements for insurance, real estate, groceries, and dry goods. Readers engaged…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mount Holly, New Jersey, 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