Barre Evening Telegram (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??

• 1898–1902
• Newspaper

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1,363 issues from 1898 to 1902, published in Barre, Vermont, digitised for Chronicling America.

In 1898, William F. Scott, publisher of the weekly Barre Enterprise, started the second daily paper in Barre, Vermont. Edited by Henry C. Whitaker, it appeared as the Barre Evening Enterprise for about a month. After Whitaker and others purchased the paper, it became the Barre Evening Telegram. The paper presented national and regional news, gained in part from its Associated Press membership, as well as local news. Editorial commentary often accompanied short items presented under the heading “Sparks from the Granite City.” Barre was the center of Vermont’s thriving granite industry, with a significant population of Scottish and Italian immigrants, and the Telegram reported on the granite business, union and labor issues, and immigrant activities.

For a very brief period during Whitaker’s tenure, the Telegram included an Italian language section, “Parte Italiana.” Although only one issue survives in library collections, the Italian sections were apparently published from December 27, 1898 to January 2, 1899. Whitaker invited Salavatore Pallavicini to compile the section for the city’s rapidly expanding Italian colony. Pallavicini was an interesting choice, as he was active in the transnational Italian anarchist network. Sources report that he published anarchist Pietro Gori’s play Primo Maggio and a newspaper in Barre in 1896, represented New York’s Italian Typographical Union at an 1897 rally celebrating the assassination of a Spanish politician, supported striking…

Genres

News

Published in

Barre, 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

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