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Newspaper Der Friedens=bote Und Lecha, Northampton, Bucks, Berks Und Montgomery Caunties Anzeiger (Allentaun, Pa.) 1840-1847 Friedensbote

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About Der Friedens=bote Und Lecha, Northampton, Bucks, Berks Und Montgomery Caunties Anzeiger (Allentaun, Pa.) 1840-1847

A weekly newspaper with Friedens-Bote (“Messenger of Peace”) in its title was published for more than a century in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and for most of its publication history was the leading German-language press in the Lehigh Valley.

It began in 1812 as Der Friedens-Bothe, und Lecha Caunty Anzeiger (“Messenger of Peace and Lehigh County Gazette”) under the editorship of Joseph Ehrenfried & Co.; then in 1814 it added the counties of “Northampton, Bucks and Montgomery” to its nameplate ; altered the title to wöchentlicher Anzeiger (“weekly gazette”) from 1816 to 1834; adopted the more modern spelling Bote and dropped the word wöchentlicher from 1834 to 1839; and then added “Berks” to its menu of counties from 1840 to 1847. The paper later shortened the nameplate to Allentown Friedens-Bote for more than half a century. It then became simply the Friedens-Bote until going out of business in 1932.

Throughout its long history, the Friedens-Bote billed itself as an independent weekly. It went through a steady succession of ownership combinations, including some individuals who went back and forth with the rival Lecha Patriot newspaper.

The second owner of the Friedens-Bote, Henrich Ebner, also printed broadsides and Fraktur templates during his time at the helm. Members of the Blumer family had a hand in running the newspaper from 1831 through 1860. Circulation was more than 4,500 copies at the end of the Civil War and varied from a reported low of 1,500 (in 1910) to 11,316 (1931) on the eve of its demise.

As was typical for a “newspaper of record” in the 19th century, the Friedens-Bote published a wide range of news, everything from local political disagreements to reports of happenings from around the world. At a time (prior to about 1875) when many other newspapers were printing one-line obituaries, the Friedens-Bote published news about deceased people that gave an extra detail or two. It also attempted to live up to the extra counties listed on its nameplate for several decades; one way it did this was by publishing deaths from those counties.

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Title

  • Der Friedens=bote Und Lecha, Northampton, Bucks, Berks Und Montgomery Caunties Anzeiger (Allentaun, Pa.) 1840-1847

Other Title

  • Friedensbote

Dates of Publication

  • 1840-1847

Created / Published

  • Allentaun, Pa. : A. Blumer & Gebrüder, 1840-1847.

Headings

  • -  German Americans--Pennsylvania--Newspapers
  • -  Allentown (Pa.)--Newspapers
  • -  German Americans
  • -  Pennsylvania--Allentown
  • -  Pennsylvania
  • -  United States--Pennsylvania--Lehigh--Allentown

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Jahrg. 28, Nr. 1 (8. Jan. 1840)-Jahrg. 35, Nr. 26 (29. Juni 1847).
  • -  Archived issues are available in digital format from the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • -  Allentown friedens-bote (DLC)sn 84026449 (OCoLC)10448807

Medium

  • v. : ill. (chiefly advertisements)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn89077900

OCLC Number

  • 18999212

ISSN Number

  • 2374-8788

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Der Friedens=bote Und Lecha, Northampton, Bucks, Berks Und Montgomery Caunties Anzeiger Allentaun, Pa. -1847. (Allentown, PA) 1 Jan. 1840. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn89077900/.