Ottawa County News (Port Clinton, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
434 issues from 1948 to 1956, published in Port Clinton, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
Port Clinton, Ohio, was founded on the shores of Lake Erie in the 1820s, after the Battle of Lake Erie removed British naval forces from the area. In 1840, it was assigned as the seat of the newly established Ottawa County. The western half of the county reached inland and was primarily used for logging, hunting, and agriculture. Camp Perry, a National Guard training facility, was built in 1909 and has been an economic center ever since. The eastern half holds several townships on the peninsula and islands, which served as commercial stops between Toledo, Cleveland, and other industrial cities on the coasts of the Great Lakes. Eventually the coastal area became a popular tourist destination.
In 1931, Port Clinton gained a Friday weekly newspaper when the Ottawa County News Democrat and the Progressive Times merged to form the Ottawa County News. The paper styled itself as Democratic, but it was not the official organ of the party. It also described itself as progressive, which referred to post-Depression ideals rather than to the Progressive Era. The County News began under the editorial guidance of Ray Sperber and with the aid of publisher Ralph L. Snyder. In 1950 Robert W. “Bob” Reider acquired it and updated the format to include a greater variety of sections. Reider was a vocal and engaging political man who served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1948 to 1956, as well as on local committees. In 1956 he was nominated as a candidate for governor of Ohio.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Port Clinton, 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