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Philadelphia Aurora; Philadelphia Bulletin; Philadelphia City Paper; Philadelphia Demokrat; Philadelphia Evening Telegraph; Philadelphia Free Press; The Philadelphia Independent (1931–1971) The Philadelphia Independent (2002–2005) Philadelphia Journal; Philadelphia Ledger; The Philadelphia Press; The Philadelphia Record; Public Ledger ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The paper was founded by Forrest White Woodard, who was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 12, 1886. [2] He moved as a young man to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , where he worked at a number of different jobs and operated a number of businesses (including a used car lot and a real estate business) before establishing The Philadelphia ...
Pennsylvania's first African American newspaper was The Mystery, published in Pittsburgh by Martin Robison Delany from 1843 to 1847. [ 2 ] Today, Pennsylvania is home to numerous active African American newspapers, including the oldest such newspaper nationwide, the Philadelphia Tribune .
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Mississippi. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first such newspaper in Mississippi was the Colored Citizen in 1867. [1] More than 70 African American newspapers were founded across Mississippi between 1867 and 1899, in at least 37 different towns. [2]
When Peacock died in 1895, the newspaper was purchased by businessman William L. McLean [2]. At the time, the last-place Bulletin sold for 2 cents an issue, equal to $0.73 today. McLean cut the price in half and increased coverage of local news. By 1905, the paper was the city's largest. [citation needed]
The Public Record began publication in September 1999 as a semi-monthly, and changed to a weekly in April, 2000. The publisher of the Public Record was James Tayoun, Sr. who was a former City Councilman in Philadelphia and State Representative in Harrisburg who resigned from office after pleading guilty to racketeering, mail-fraud, tax- evasion and obstruction-of-justice.
American Newspaper Annual & Directory. Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son. 1922. pp. 511+. hdl:2027/umn.31951001295695n. Works Progress Administration (1942). Mississippi newspapers, 1805-1940: a preliminary union list of Mississippi newspaper files available in county archives, offices of publishers, libraries, and private collections in ...