The Tri-County News (Grand Rapids, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,442 issues from 1915 to 1949, published in Grand Rapids, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
This weekly community newspaper series was first published in the village of Grand Rapids, Ohio, as the Tri-County Bulletin in 1897. It derived its title from Grand Rapids’ position at the meeting point of Henry, Wood, and Lucas counties in northwest Ohio, and its coverage spanned parts of all three counties. Its first publisher, Azor Thurston, was a prominent citizen and pharmacist in Grand Rapids, and issues of the Bulletin often carried large advertisements for Dr. Thurston’s pills and supplements. In some cases, such as the issue of January 2, 1900, an entire page was devoted to promoting “Thurston’s Family Medicines.”
By 1912, Dr. Thurston had sold the paper to new ownership, and by 1915 its title had been changed to the Tri-County News. The News went through more ownership changes over the following decades, but the nature of the content remained largely the same. In November 1949, due to rising printing costs, the News merged with the Weston Wood County Herald to form the Tri-County Herald News. This new publication was printed out of the nearby town of Weston, Ohio, and continued to be issued through at least 1953.
News coverage in the Tri-County series was mainly local in nature but occasionally touched on state-level or national topics. Issues frequently contained columns devoted to news and happenings from the surrounding areas. For example, the Tri-County News of January 30, 1936, included social notes and updates from Damascus, Custar, Pottertown, Milton…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grand Rapids, 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