The Brattleboro Daily Reformer (Brattleboro, Vt.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,017 issues from 1913 to 1922, published in Brattleboro, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.
Charles N. Davenport, a lawyer from Brattleboro, Vermont, and an ardent Democrat, established the weekly Windham County Reformer in the summer of 1876 to support the presidential campaign of Samuel Tilden. Davenport was frustrated by the biased coverage provided by the Vermont Phoenix, the local Republican paper. According to one account, a campaign slogan, “Tilden and Reform,” provided the inspiration for the new paper’s name. A prospectus promised that the Reformer would support federal and state administrative reforms regarding currency, revenue, and civil service, and “oppose thieves, plunderers and bribe takers everywhere.” In Vermont, the Reformer promised to stand for a system of equal taxation and against favoritism for corporations and railroads. Davenport’s son, Charles H., took on the editorial duties, and after his father’s death, assumed ownership of the paper.
In the 1880s, the Reformer appeared in five editions, including papers in Bennington County, Vermont, and Franklin County, Massachusetts. The Windham County Reformer was issued as a county edition and a local edition, and a statewide edition appeared as the Brattleboro Reformer from 1884 to 1901. Starting in 1897, the paper was published on Tuesdays and Fridays as the Semi-Weekly Windham County Reformer.
The Reformer included the literary, scientific, home, religion, and agriculture departments typical of 19th-century country weeklies. The paper prided itself on its local, county, and state coverage,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Brattleboro, Vermont, 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