Freeland Tribune (Freeland, Pa.)
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1,460 issues from 1889 to 1903, published in Freeland, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
Growing from settlements in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, dating to the 1840s and 1850s, a town named Freehold was laid out in 1870, and in 1876 it was renamed Freeland and incorporated as a borough. Although not a mining town, Freeland’s growth and prosperity were linked to the surrounding mining communities in this area of the lower anthracite region of Luzerne County.
In 1893, Henry C. Bradsby reported in his History of Luzerne County that the Freeland Tribune was launched on June 28, 1888, by Thomas A. Buckley, with the help of his son, D. S. Buckley, a practical printer and expert reporter, who worked for the Philadelphia Record and other metropolitan newspapers. Bradsby went on to say that “Mr. Buckley had for some time conducted a job office in the place, and it did not require much to start a seven-column folio weekly. [The Tribune] commenced and continues democratic. It so prospered as a weekly that, in June, 1892, it became a semi-weekly, with a steam-power press, job presses and all the latest wants of a complete country office.” The Freeland Tribune was a counterbalance to the Republican-leaning Semi-Weekly Progress. It went from semiweekly in 1892 to appearing three times a week in 1900, reverting to a weekly in 1919 until its final issue on June 30, 1921.
In its first 30 years, Freeland had foundries and machine shops, silk and overall factories, carriage and hame makers, and a beer brewery, along with numerous stores and businesses and more than a dozen…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Freeland, Pennsylvania, 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