The Star (Reynoldsville, Pa.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
954 issues from 1892 to 1910, published in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
Although it existed in an era of often rabidly political rural newspapers, in its first issue, on May 11, 1892, the Reynoldsville Star announced that it was “not published in the interest of any corporation, sect, or party.” Editor Clarence A. Stephenson promised that the Star would serve Reynoldsville and Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and that he would “strive to present to our readers a clean, practical, moral, wide-awake newspaper” in eight pages every Wednesday. Stephenson launched his enterprise in direct competition with the only other newspaper in Reynoldsville (population 2,789) at the time: the Volunteer, founded in 1874.
Jefferson County had been established in 1804, one of five new counties formed from the vast Lycoming County wilderness. It was sparsely settled until Brookville, the county seat, was laid out in 1830. Reynoldsville was originally known as Winslow Township and assumed its current name in 1850 when the Post Office Department officially approved Thomas Reynolds as the postmaster and authorized the new post office named after him.
Though originally remote and under populated, the region around Reynoldsville was prosperous by the late 19th century, with a thriving lumber industry and related businesses such as a tannery, sawmills, and a pick works. Trees cut down near Reynoldsville would be floated down several creeks to the Allegheny River and end up in Pittsburgh. Located in the center of the county’s coal region, Reynoldsville and environs had…
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- News
- Published in
- Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- 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.
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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- Library of Congress