Scranton Wochenblatt (Scranton, Pa.)
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2,277 issues from 1869 to 1918, published in Scranton, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Scranton Wochenblatt, edited and published by Friederich Wagner, was a weekly German language newspaper, published in Scranton, Pennsylvania, from January 1865 through August 1918. In the masthead for the January 10, 1901 issue, the Wochenblatt boasted the largest circulation of any German newspaper in Lackawanna County. Circulation peaked at 1,250 in 1910, and remained at 1,200 in 1918, the final year of publication.
Editor/owner Friedrich Wagner was born in Anweiler, Germany, in 1838, and came to the United States with his father Joseph. Wagner learned the printing trade from Robert Baur of Wilkes-Barre and founded the Scranton Wochenblatt in 1865. The Wagner family was involved with the Wochenblatt throughout its existence, with the exception of 1876-80, when August Stutzbach was editor and proprietor. Frederick A. Wagner, son of the elder Friederich, took over the paper in 1891 and remained “proprietor and publisher.”
The eight-page Wochenblatt was the oldest and longest-running German language newspaper in Scranton. Its political sympathies were usually Democratic or Independent. Prior to World War One, the Scranton Wochenblatt focused mainly on local affairs, although each issue had national and international sections. National news coverage differed little from that in English language newspapers. International news stories stressed developments of “general interest” in the German states, with little mention of politics. Columns and features included serial…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
- 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