Milford Chronicle (Milford, Del.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,713 issues from 1878 to 1963, published in Milford, Delaware, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Milford Chronicle was first published on October 4, 1878, and was the first dollar newspaper issued in the state of Delaware. Founded by Julius E. Scott and Theodore Townsend, the Chronicle was founded as a politically independent newspaper and published weekly on Fridays, originally with four pages.
Prior to moving to Milford, Delaware, Theodore Townsend was a traveling correspondent for newspapers in New York and Philadelphia. On January 1, 1881, Scott sold his share of the partnership to William P. Corsa, the owner of the Peninsular News and Advertiser. To appeal to more rural subscribers, the newspaper was modified around 1882 to become an eight-page paper, with half of the pages being called the Delaware Farmer.
Townsend and Corsa continued publishing until about 1885, when Corsa sold his interest to R. H. Gilman, a representative of the Democratic party. Unhappy with the arrangement, in 1886 Townsend purchased a majority interest in the paper and returned it to nonpartisan reporting. In 1904, Townsend purchased the rival Peninsular News and Advertiser and merged the two papers. The Peninsular News and Advertiser ceased to be a distinct publication, and the Milford Chronicle was incorporated under the Milford Chronicle Publishing Company in 1910. Following Townsend’s death in 1936, ownership of the paper passed to his son, G. Marshall Townsend, who continued in that role through the early 1960s. At that time, the Chronicle was one of the nation’s largest weekly…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Milford, Delaware, 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