The Pleasantville Press (Pleasantville, 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.
969 issues from 1912 to 1927, published in Pleasantville, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Pleasantville Weekly Press underwent dramatic changes when the paper was purchased by S.E. Whitman & Sons in October of 1910. Samuel Whitman and his sons, Bertram and Walter, had previously owned and edited The Easton Star-Democrat in Maryland; they had built The Easton Star-Democrat into a thriving business and sold it after 14 years. When they purchased the Pleasantville Weekly Press from G.William Braun, who had been editor for six years, they bought a four-page newspaper printed on a cylinder press. The Whitmans purchased a six-column quarto Whitlock drum cylinder press from Connor, Fendler & Co. of New York City. They also used a Mergenthaler Linotype Model 5. Within a year, by September 1911, they had increased the size of the paper from four pages to a six-column, eight-page paper.
Content continued to focus on local happenings, real estate, entertainment, and gossip with some coverage of local community development news and occasional small snippets of national and international coverage of major events during World War I. The expanded paper included serialized stories as well more illustrations and entertainment. The Pleasantville Press advertised itself as the best place for neighborhood news, business tips, retail sales announcemetns, and entertainment for the whole family.
Bertram E. Whitman became president of the Pleasantville National Bank, and asa staunch Republican, he became an elected member of the New Jersey Assembly from 1915 to 1917. He was then…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pleasantville, 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