The Evening Telegram (Camden, 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.
588 issues from 1887 to 1888, published in Camden, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Evening Telegram was first published on February 24, 1886 in Camden by James M. Fitzgerald and Alvah M. Smith as a Democratic party newspaper. It was a four-page daily newspaper of six columns and the first paper in New Jersey to receive telegraphic news over its own wire. As soon as the paper was started, a direct wire was run to Cooper’s Point, Camden, where it was connected with Baltimore and Ohio cables, making the paper a member of the United Press syndicate. On September 16, 1886, Fitzgerald purchased a one-third interest in the newspaper from Smith, who retired. Fitzgerald published the newspaper until June 13, 1887, when John H. Fort hastily purchased it, as Fitzgerald was on trial for embezzlement in his role as a Camden county freeholder.
John H. Fort was born on Staten Island, New York in 1851 and educated at schools in Lawrenceville, NJ. He studied law with Marmaduke B. Taylor in Camden and was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1873, and as counselor in 1881. Fort was an experienced newspaper editor, having started newspapers in both Camden and Philadelphia, in addition to being a lawyer. In a June 13, 1887 column, he vowed to retain the newspaper as a voice of the Democratic Party, “The course of this journal will be much the same as heretofore. It will import the National and State Administrations, and favor every idea that will advance the intelligent interests of the Democratic party. We shall be aggressive, where it is necessary, and in no event…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Camden, 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