Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (Newark, N.J.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,908 issues from 1910 to 1916, published in Newark, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser was a twenty-page, seven column, one cent daily newspaper published every afternoon except Sundays in Newark, New Jersey. It was politically independent.
The owner and editor of the Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser was James Smith, Jr., former United States senator, businessman, and Newark native. Smith was one of the politicians credited with giving Woodrow Wilson his start in politics, and the Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser frequently ran articles supporting Wilson for governor in 1910. Wilson proceeded to run as a “good government” candidate, against the type of Democratic machine politics that Smith stood for, and once in office he actively opposed Smith’s re-election to the United States Senate by the New Jersey legislature. Many November and December 1910 issues of the paper ran articles and editorials supporting Smith for United States Senate and refusing to accept the nomination of James E. Martine, who had won the Democratic preference primary. Smith and his supporters refused to abide by the outcome of the primary where, they argued, few men voted. After failing to persuade Smith to withdraw, Wilson threw his support to Martine, whom the New Jersey Legislature chose in 1911.
By the first two decades of the twentieth century, Newark had transitioned from being primarily a manufacturing city to one that was both a manufacturing and a commercial hub. By 1909, its downtown was thriving and had many…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Newark, New Jersey, 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