The Midland Journal (Rising Sun, Md.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,203 issues from 1885 to 1946, published in Rising Sun, Maryland, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Midland Journal was founded in Rising Sun as a weekly by Edwin E. Ewing (1824-1901), a veteran newspaper man from Cecil County, Maryland. Ewing purchased the Rising Sun Journal in 1885 from the firm of William H. Pennington & Brother, renaming it the Midland Journal. The new owner previously had run the Cecil Whig newspaper in nearby Elkton from 1860 to 1876, before selling his interest and moving to Kansas where he was associated with the Kansas Farmer of Topeka. In 1882, Ewing relocated to North Carolina where he started the Blue Ridge Enterprise, before returning in 1885 to Cecil County as publisher of the Midland Journal. Edwin Ewing also was an author of poetry and stories, including two dime novels with the titles the Witch of the Wallowish and the Hunter Guide. After his death his sons continued to publish the paper. In 1947, the Ewing family sold the Midland Journal to the Cecil Whig and it ceased as a separate title.
As with many small-town newspapers, the Midland Journal functioned primarily as a source of advertising, light reading, local news items, and brief notices of national and international events. The town of Rising Sun, named for a tavern sign that depicted the rays of the sun, was located on the main road between Baltimore and Philadelphia. This strategic location, and the nearby presence of a prosperous community of Quakers on the Nottingham Lots that straddle the Maryland-Pennsylvania border, supported its early growth. In 1865, the Philadelphia…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Rising Sun, Maryland, 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