Herald and News (West Randolph, Vt.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,146 issues from 1888 to 1910, published in Randolph, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1873, newspaper entrepreneur Lewis P. Thayer purchased the plant and the very small subscription list of the Green Mountain Herald, a new weekly paper published in the village of West Randolph in east-central Vermont. With the assistance of Edward D. Upham as editor, Thayer expanded circulation to the White River Valley region, adding editions for the towns of Chelsea and Bethel. In April 1877, a fire destroyed everything except the paper’s account books, but Thayer recovered quickly. By the end of the month, Thayer had consolidated the Chelsea Post, the Vermont News (Bethel, Vermont), and the Herald under a new title, the Herald and News. In 1879, he sold an interest in the paper to Upham, who ran the Herald and News until 1881, when Thayer repurchased his partner’s share. Luther B. Johnson bought the Herald and News and its associated weeklies from Thayer in 1894. He continued its regional focus, and added two more editions, one for Rochester and another for South Royalton.
Under Thayer’s direction, the Herald and News was especially strong in local coverage. Correspondents provided news about people, events, and activities in communities large and small throughout the region. An 1889 issue, for example, included reports from over thirty communities. Local editor Georgia White contributed lengthy reports about Randolph events and residents under both Thayer and Johnson. For a time, Thayer offered the Herald and News in two editions, at two prices. The less expensive…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Randolph, 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