News and Citizen (Morrisville, Vt. ; Hyde Park, Vt.) 1881-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,254 issues from 1881 to 1922, published in Hyde Park, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1881, with support from prominent local citizens, L. Halsey Lewis and Henry C. Fisk consolidated two Lamoille County, Vermont weekly newspapers, the Vermont Citizen and the Lamoille News, to form the News and Citizen. Fisk left the enterprise in 1886, but Lewis served as editor and publisher until 1922.
Over the many decades that he published the News and Citizen, Lewis devoted a notable amount of space to local, state, and national news. In 1884, in response to readers’ complaints that he was favoring advertising over news, Lewis promised that advertisements would no longer be included in the local column. His correspondents reported people’s comings and goings, but also very conscientiously and consistently reported on local activities, events, and issues. As a result, the News and Citizen provides a remarkably detailed record of how Lamoille County, and especially the villages of Morrisville and Hyde Park, responded to the challenges and opportunities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
When Lewis retired in 1922, Arthur A. Twiss took over as editor and manager. He arranged to have the News and Citizen printed by the Morrisville press that published the rival Messenger-Sentinel list of weeklies for the Lamoille County communities of Morrisville, Johnson, Wolcott, Stowe, Jeffersonville, and Cambridge. Twenty years later, Arthur B. Limoge, the owner of the Messenger-Sentinel list, acquired the News and Citizen. He planned to add it to the list, but in response…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hyde Park, Vermont, 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