Newark Leader ([Newark, Ohio])
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634 issues from 1917 to 1942, published in Newark, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Newark Leader began on November 24, 1917, under the leadership of the Newark Trades and Labor Assembly and publisher Julius Juch. Juch was a German immigrant who ran the German-language newspaper the Newark Express, which ended in October that same year. It published six columns weekly on Saturdays, until at some point shifting to Thursdays with seven columns.
The Newark Leader was not attached to any specific union, but rather to the labor movement in general. In its inaugural issue, it claimed to “stand for loyalty, civic betterment, for honesty, efficiency and probity, in the individual, and especially for those who serve the public.” To those ends, the Newark Leader focused on conveying union news to members in a timely fashion by partnering with Local Union secretaries for updates. It also had an interest in uplifting Newark citizens with suggestions ranged from thrifty spending tips to Do-It-Yourself projects and recipes. In an effort to convince people to join a union, the paper often included explanations of how unions benefited both laborers and the economy at large. Although the Newark Ledger resolved to leave political news and local personals to the daily newspapers of the area, it actively criticized price gouging and non-local business. It advertised strictly local businesses that sold union label goods. The Newark Leader adopted a Democratic stance in 1928.
By the 1940s, the Newark Leader began to include items of more social interest. Although it still…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Newark, 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