Marietta Daily Leader (Marietta, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,733 issues from 1896 to 1901, published in Marietta, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The first issue of the Marietta Daily Leader appeared on April 1, 1895. George M. Cooke, a local printer, had purchased the paper’s predecessor, the Marietta Leader , in 1890. The Marietta Leader began as a triweekly paper, before transitioning to a semiweekly and finally a daily under Cooke’s editorial watch. As the editor, Cooke continued the practice of his predecessors in conveying events of the community and its newsmakers alongside national and state news. The Marietta Daily Leader was noted as a “handsome eight-column paper, of newsy character,” that provided “insight on local communities and their townspeople.” The Daily Leader was the only morning paper published in the city and had a circulation of over 5,000.
The Daily Leader had its beginnings in the late 1800s, with the Republicans of Marietta concerned with the state of newspaper coverage for their party. On February 23, 1881, Frank A. Crippen and Will S. Knox founded the Marietta Weekly Leader , a paper aimed at the Republican base in Marietta. Crippen came to the paper after having worked in the Cincinnati newspaper business and having served as editor for the Marietta Times for two years prior to 1881.
While the Daily Leader catered to national and state news on the front page, it was filled to the brim with local news from the second page on. It provided the residents of Marietta with news from the Associated Press, as the only paper in Marietta featuring the wire. The Daily Leader was also the first…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Marietta, Ohio, 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