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Newspaper The Newtown Bee (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-Current

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About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Newtown Bee (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-Current

Dates of Publication

  • 1877-current

Created / Published

  • Newtown, Conn. : A.A. Bensel, 1877-

Headings

  • -  Newtown (Conn.)--Newspapers
  • -  Southbury (Conn.)--Newspapers
  • -  Woodbury (Conn.)--Newspapers
  • -  Middlebury (Conn. : Town)--Newspapers
  • -  New Milford (Conn.)--Newspapers
  • -  Oxford (Conn.)--Newspapers
  • -  Connecticut--Middlebury (Town)
  • -  Connecticut--New Milford
  • -  Connecticut--Newtown
  • -  Connecticut--Oxford
  • -  Connecticut--Southbury
  • -  Connecticut--Woodbury
  • -  United States--Connecticut--Fairfield--Newtown

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Vol. 1, no. 15 (Oct. 4, 1877)-
  • -  Includes section called: Southbury area ed., Oct. 31, 1969-, and: The Newtown Bee, Southbury and Woodbury, -Jan. 21, 1977, and: The Bee, Jan. 28, 1977-May 13, 1985.
  • -  A section called the "Annex" appeared from approximately May 4-July 13, 1888. Regional news was published on an added page with a duplicate masthead from Oct. 15, 1888-Sept. 27, 1895. From approximately Oct. 19, 1900 to approximately June 19, 1908 two "editions" lacking edition statements and with slight different content were very intermittently published.
  • -  Available on microfilm from New England Micrographics, Marlboro, Mass.
  • -  Includes section called: Antiques and the arts weekly, Oct. 24, 1969-Jan. 11, 1974, which became available as a separate publication.
  • -  Includes section called: Antiques, Jan. 18, 1974-July 13, 1979.
  • -  Archived issues are available in digital format from the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • -  Later published by John Pearce -1880; by Ruben H. Smith and members of the Smith family, 1880-<2018>.
  • -  Other ed.: Weekly star (Newtown, Conn.), May 20, 1985-Oct. 10, 1992.

Medium

  • v. : ill. ; 59 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn92051487

OCLC Number

  • 26243284

ISSN Number

  • 2637-7411

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Chicago citation style:

The Newtown Bee Newtown, Conn. -Current. (Newtown, CT), Jan. 1 1877. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn92051487/.

APA citation style:

(1877, January 1) The Newtown Bee Newtown, Conn. -Current. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn92051487/.

MLA citation style:

The Newtown Bee Newtown, Conn. -Current. (Newtown, CT) 1 Jan. 1877. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn92051487/.