The Marion Daily Mirror (Marion, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,632 issues from 1907 to 1912, published in Marion, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
One of the oldest surviving papers in Marion County, the Marion Daily Mirror was founded as the Democratic Mirror on June 4, 1842, by John R. and Russell A. Knapp. The paper appeared weekly until 1890, when Editor R.R. Bartram began to publish issues every evening but Sunday. Throughout its history, the Mirror underwent many changes in editorship but, somewhat remarkably, maintained essentially the same name until 1912 when it became known as the Marion Ohio Tribune .
As its original name suggests, the Mirror was strongly Democratic, although historian John Wilbur Jacoby claimed in 1907 that by combining the viewpoints of several editors, reporters, and professional writers, the paper came to present a more balanced perspective. Despite the editorial changes, the Mirror remained important for the citizens of Marion as it reflected current events and local interests. Until it became the Marion Ohio Tribune, the Mirror underwent only one merger, when it purchased the smaller Dollar Democrat, a poor competitor in the news world, in 1896.
Starting in 1900, the Mirror was owned by J. Burgess and N.E. Arnold. By 1907, the corporation was worth $50,000. Burgess still owned the company, but the editors were Dr. Arlington Clare Holland and F.M. Armstrong. Sensational headlines invited subscribers to read international, national, and state news. Stories, some received from the Scripps McRae Telegraphic News Service and Market Reports, covered a variety of topics, from tragic…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Marion, 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