Gloucester County Democrat (Woodbury, N.J.)
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1,423 issues from 1878 to 1912, published in Woodbury, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Gloucester County Democrat was originally started in Mantua, which is also in Gloucester County, New Jersey, and had a name that reflected that location. Within a month the paper expanded and changed both its name and location, moving to Woodbury and becoming the Gloucester County Democrat. The October 8, 1878 edition of the paper explains to its readers that being at the center of railroad and telegraph communication in the county seat of Woodbury would be beneficial to gathering news and serving the interests of the party and readers.
William T. Gibbs was the initial editor and proprietor, but he left the paper in February 1879 to work at another newspaper. From August 6, 1878 until February 1879, the paper was a six-column folio with a subscription price of fifty cents per year. It was published irregularly from February to March 1879, when it was purchased by James D. Carpenter, who enlarged the paper to a seven-column folio and raised the subscription price to a dollar fifty per year. Carpenter’s first press was a Washington hand press, which was then followed by a Taylor drum cylinder and a steam engine. In August 1880, with a growing subscription list and increased advertising, the paper was enlarged to eight columns.
Carpenter came from a publishing family and his goal was to establish a permanent politically Democratic newspaper in Gloucester County. Born in Oswego, New York, his father ran the Oswego Palladium. After trying several professions, and with no…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Woodbury, New Jersey, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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