The Clarion News is a twice weekly newspaper in Clarion in the U.S State of Pennsylvania. It was founded 1843 and covers local news, sports, business and community events.[1] The newspaper is published on Tuesday and Thursday. According to the American Newspaper Representatives, the newspaper has a paid circulation of 6,800 copies.[2]
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Editor | Ryan S. Pugh |
| Sports editor | Ryan S. Pugh |
| Founded | 1843 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 860 S. Fifth Avenue, Suite 4, Clarion, PA United States |
| Circulation | 6,800 |
| OCLC number | 2259441 |
| Website | theclarionnews |
History
editOriginally known as the Democrat Register, it was founded on April 26, 1843 by D. W. Foster[3] as a Whig paper.[4] In 1845, Foster resigned, handing editorial control to Parker Purviance, a Butler, Pennsylvania attorney, who subsequently sold it to his brother-in-law A. J. Gibson.[4]
In 1852, it was purchased by Samuel Young, who changed the name to the Independent Banner in 1856.[5][3] Under that name, the paper initially continued to take a Whig position, supporting Fillmore as an alternative to Buchanan in 1856, primarily on "Freedom for Kansas" grounds.[6]
Young continued to run the paper until 1869, with a brief absence after he was drafted into the Union Army in 1863.[7] The paper opposed the Republican nominee for congress, C. W. Gilfillan, in 1869.[4] Gilfillan bought out the paper in 1869, changing the paper's name to the Republican, thereby eliminating a major opponent in the press.[4][3] Gilfillan would go on to lose the election in a close 1870 race against Democrat Samuel Griffith[8] and would sell the paper in 1871.
By 1876, the paper had a circulation of over 1,500, and was being printed on Fridays by the Republican Printing Company.[9] J. B. Patrick took the helm in 1883,[10] and after a long tenure as editor and publisher leased the paper to W. C. Miltenberger and W. H. Pickens in 1896.[11] Pickens died shortly afterward, and Miltenberger bought out both his share and the publishing plant still held by Patrick.[12] The paper continued a bitter war with political rival the Clarion Democrat, with the Democrat attacking Miltenberger's influence on "every paper he has ever blighted with the special brand of rot he is only capable of writing and which is supposed to be the result of an admixture of egotism and molasses on the brain."[13]
In 1901, Miltenberger moved to Idaho for health reasons.[14] When he died in 1904, he was described by the Democrat as "a man of most genial temperment [sic]...accommodating and obliging to a fault, being always inspired by kindly and generous sentiments."[15]
After Miltenberger's 1901 departure, the role of editor and publisher was taken over by Jay E. Fitz.[16] John P. Baker became editor of the paper in 1932 and remained with the paper until 1936.[17] W.C. Hearst became publisher of the Clarion Republican in 1941 and later became publisher of the Clarion Democrat in 1948.
In 1965, the Clarion Republican and the Clarion Democrat were purchased from W.C. Hearst by Western Pennsylvania Newspaper Company and Homer L. Watson was named publisher.[18] The papers were combined and renamed as Clarion News.[19]
References
edit- ^ "Clarion News newspaper - MondoTimes.com". www.mondotimes.com. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
- ^ "American Newspaper Representatives database" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ^ a b c Library, Pennsylvania State (1901). Report of the State Librarian.
- ^ a b c d Davis, Aaron J. (1887). History of Clarion Co., Pennsylvania, 1887. Record Press.
- ^ "About Clarion independent banner". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
- ^ "Clarion Banner Prefers Fillmore". Lewisburg Chronicle. 1 August 1856.
- ^ "Editors Drafted". The Baltimore Sun. 2 September 1863.
- ^ Poore, Benjamin Perley (1872). Congressional Directory, Compiled for the Use of Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ United States Newspaper Directory: Containing Correct Lists of All the Newspapers and Periodicals Published in the United States, Territories and British Provinces. Cook, Coburn & Company. 1876.
- ^ "Items". The Forest Republican. 19 September 1883.
- ^ "A Change". The Clarion Democrat. 2 January 1896.
- ^ "Items". The Kane Republican. 10 January 1899.
- ^ "Not his first offense". The Clarion Democrat. 19 July 1900.
- ^ "Clarion Republican Changed Hands". The Indiana Weekly Messenger. 17 April 1901.
- ^ "Items". The New Bethlehem Vindicator. 14 October 1904.
- ^ "Items". The Clarion Democrat. 27 June 1901.
- ^ "John Baker, 1932-1936". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
- ^ "Two Clarion Newspapers Are Sold". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
- ^ National Endowment for the Humanities. "The Clarion News". Retrieved 2019-06-23.