The Olneyville Times (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,474 issues from 1887 to 1917, published in Providence, Rhode Island, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Olneyville Times was first published in 1887 and ran until 1917, after which time its name was changed to the Providence County Times; however, the Olneyville Times‘ numbering system was retained. In January 1925, the paper’s name was again changed to the Providence County Times and Olneyville Times.
Olneyville Square, a busy business district at the crossroads of Westminster Street, Broadway, Manton Avenue and Plainfield Street in western Providence, was gateway to many of the towns and villages of northwestern Providence County. As such, the Olneyville Times‘ masthead contained the following wording: “Covering a Field which includes West Providence, Johnston, Scituate, Smithfield and North Providence.” Over time the wording changed to include other towns.
The Olneyville Times was first published weekly on Saturday, but after less than two years of its inaugural issue, the day of publication was changed to Friday. As a local newspaper, it provided news of local interest that often would not be covered in the larger and more cosmopolitan newspapers. The editors, Sibley and Johnson, shied away from political matters as noted in the paper’s first issue, “Neither is the Times started as a political organ as we are not ambitious of making it a meddlesome factor in local issues or disagreeably partisan in State or national affairs.”
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Providence, Rhode Island, 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