Bridgeton Pioneer (Bridgeton, 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.
1,762 issues from 1884 to 1917, published in Bridgeton, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Bridgeton Pioneer, a weekly New Jersey publication released every Thursday, was launched on January 10, 1884 under the motto “Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may.” The first issue consisted of a front page sharing state news and court proceedings, with a section devoted to advertisements as well. The rest of the paper hosted the first chapter of a serial novel By the Gate of the Sea, a full-page advertisement for the W. H. Woodroof department store, local news and gossip, and marriage and death announcements.
The Bridgeton Pioneer continued under the ownership of Nichols and McCowan until February 23, 1888, when Nichols, a former New Jersey State Assemblyman and Senator announced he was dissolving his partnership with McCowan and leaving the newspaper. In his farewell address to readers, Nichols described his journalistic career as follows: “for more than twenty years the writer [Nichols] has been connected with Journalism in Bridgeton, either as a compositor, reporter, publisher, and editor (the greater portion of the time with this paper)…” McCowan would continue as sole proprietor of the Bridgeton Pioneer until it ceased publication, probably in 1919.
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bridgeton, 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