South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
6,447 issues from 1913 to 1931, published in South Bend, Indiana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The South Bend [Indiana]News-Times was formed on June 2, 1913, from a merger between the South Bend Times and the South Bend News.
The Times had been in operation under several names since it was founded in 1881 by Editor Henry A. Peed (1846-1905). Around 1870, Peed, a Civil War veteran, was editing the Martin County Herald in the small southern Indiana town of Dover Hill. After founding the pro-Democrat South Bend Times, he quickly sold out to John B. Stoll and moved to Saline County, Missouri, where he became editor of the Sweet Springs Herald .
John Stoll (1843-1926) emigrated from Württemberg, Germany, in 1853, settling in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he lived in poverty. Speaking only German and soon orphaned, Stoll worked as a street peddler until he met Margaret Brua Cameron, wife of General Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and later Abraham Lincoln’s War Secretary. The Camerons helped Stoll pursue the printer’s trade. (Cameron himself was orphaned as a child and apprenticed as a printer.) Stoll bought his first newspaper – the Johnstown Independent Observer – at age 17.
Moving to Noble County, Indiana, with his wife’s family, Stoll helped establish the Ligonier National Banner, a major Democratic journal in the region. He went on to found the Press Association of Northern Indiana in 1881 and the Times Printing Company of South Bend in 1882, which took over daily printing of the South Bend Daily Times in 1883. The Times took on Stoll’s character as…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- South Bend, Indiana, 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