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Whig, then Republican, pro-coal-industry and anti-Molly-Maguire in its politics.", "people": [ "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/people/benjamin-bannan" ] }, { "id": "minersville-free-press", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Minersville Free Press", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Minersville", "yearsActive": "1884–1965", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "defunct", "lccn": "sn89077749", "locUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89077749/", "notes": "Minersville's long-running weekly; the borough's earlier paper was the Minersville Bulletin (1850–1856)." }, { "id": "pottsville-emporium", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Pottsville Emporium", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Pottsville", "yearsActive": "1838–1862", "language": "English", "category": "political", "status": "defunct", "formerNames": [ "Pottsville Emporium, and Colliers' Democratic Register (1838–1844)", "Pottsville Emporium, and Democratic Press (1847–1854)", "The Mining Register, and Schuylkill County Democrat (1850–1854)", "Mining Record, Pottsville Emporium (1859–1862)" ], "lineageGroup": "pottsville-emporium", "succession": "One Democratic paper under successive titles (Emporium → Mining Register → Mining Record), 1838–1862.", "notes": "The Democratic counterweight to the Whig/Republican Miners' Journal; the directory dates of its many title changes are partly garbled in the source catalog." }, { "id": "pottsville-journal", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Pottsville Journal", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Pottsville", "yearsActive": "1909–1953", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "defunct", "lineageGroup": "miners-journal", "succession": "Absorbed the Miners' Journal lineage in 1909; ceased September 19, 1953.", "lccn": "sn86081729", "locUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86081729/", "notes": "The 20th-century successor that carried the Miners' Journal name forward until it closed in 1953." }, { "id": "pottsville-republican", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Pottsville Republican", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Pottsville", "yearsActive": "1884–present (lineage)", "language": "English", "category": "political", "status": "active-historic", "formerNames": [ "Daily Republican (1884–1889)", "Pottsville Daily Republican (1889–1917)", "Pottsville Evening Republican (1923–1942)" ], "lineageGroup": "pottsville-republican", "succession": "1995 merged with the Shenandoah Evening Herald → Republican & Herald (2004) → Republican-Herald (2009–present), the county's surviving daily; the modern operating paper is profiled in the Directory, not here.", "historicMilestone": "Founded 1884 as the Daily Republican by Joseph Henry Zerbey — the historical lineage that survives as Pottsville's daily newspaper; in 1979 its reporters Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot Jaspin shared the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company.", "lccn": "sn85055289", "locUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn85055289/", "wikidataUrl": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100280425", "notes": "Republican in politics. The modern operating paper is profiled in the Directory news-media section (directoryRef → republican-herald).", "sources": [ { "name": "Wikipedia — Gilbert M. Gaul (1979 Pulitzer with Elliot Jaspin at the Pottsville Republican)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_M._Gaul", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0" } ] }, { "id": "pottsville-standard", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Pottsville Standard", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Pottsville", "yearsActive": "1857–1907", "language": "English", "category": "political", "status": "defunct", "formerNames": [ "Pottsville Democratic Standard / Democratic Standard (1857–1865)" ], "lccn": "sn84026250", "locUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84026250/", "notes": "A long-running Democratic paper of the county seat." }, { "id": "mahanoy-record-american", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Record American", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Mahanoy City", "yearsActive": "1865–1969", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "defunct", "formerNames": [ "Mahanoy City Gazette / Mahanoy Gazette (1865)", "Mahanoy Tribune (1879)", "The Daily Record (1871)", "The Daily American (c.1890)", "American Tribune" ], "lineageGroup": "mahanoy-gazette", "succession": "The final consolidation of Mahanoy City's English papers; bought by the Shenandoah Evening Herald and closed in late 1969.", "lccn": "sn89077648", "locUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89077648/", "notes": "The ~50-year English daily that ended a publishing run begun with the Mahanoy Gazette in 1865." }, { "id": "saule", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Saulė (The Sun)", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Mahanoy City", "yearsActive": "1888–1959", "language": "Lithuanian", "category": "ethnic", "status": "defunct", "wikidataUrl": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12672503", "notes": "Founded July 27, 1888 by Domininkas Boczkauskas and run by his family for 71 years — at its peak the highest-circulation Lithuanian-language newspaper of its time, printed in a coal town free of the czarist ban on the Lithuanian press. Wikidata Q12672503 linked 2026-07-01 (lt-labeled 'Saulė (laikraštis)'; ltwiki confirms 1888–1959, Mahanoy City; bare item — enrich upstream, never create a duplicate).", "people": [ "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/people/domininkas-boczkauskas" ], "cultures": [ "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/cultures/lithuanians" ], "sources": [ { "name": "Mahanoy Area Historical Society — 'The Saulė Newspaper 1888–1959'", "url": "https://www.mahanoyhistory.org/saule.html", "license": "reference" }, { "name": "Draugas News — 'The Saulė Newspaper 1888–1959: A Giant of the Lithuanian Press'", "url": "https://www.draugas.org/news/the-saule%CC%87-newspaper1888-1959-a-giant-of-the-lithuanian-press/", "license": "publisher" } ] }, { "id": "tamaqua-courier", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Tamaqua Courier", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Tamaqua", "yearsActive": "1870s–1971", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "defunct", "formerNames": [ "Evening Courier (1900–1971)" ], "succession": "Circulation acquired by Pencor Services in 1971 and merged into the Times News (Lehighton).", "lccn": "sn86081938", "locUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86081938/", "notes": "Tamaqua's principal daily; its end in 1971 folded the town's coverage into the regional Times News." }, { "id": "the-call-schuylkill-haven", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "The Call", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Schuylkill Haven", "yearsActive": "1891–1951; 1969–2010", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "defunct", "lineageGroup": "the-call", "succession": "Succeeded in 2010 by the South Schuylkill News (Directory).", "lccn": "sn89077477", "locUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89077477/", "notes": "Schuylkill Haven's town weekly across two runs; its lineage continues in the modern South Schuylkill News." }, { "id": "mahanoy-press", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "The Mahanoy Press", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Mahanoy City", "yearsActive": "1922–1926", "language": "English", "category": "labor", "status": "defunct", "notes": "A daily afternoon paper that was the official organ of the United Mine Workers of America, District 9 — the institutional labor press of the anthracite union, published by Press Publishing Co." }, { "id": "tygodnik-gorniczy", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Tygodnik Górniczy (The Mining Weekly)", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Shenandoah", "yearsActive": "by 1919", "language": "Polish", "category": "ethnic", "status": "defunct", "notes": "A Polish-language weekly of Shenandoah, listed as active in N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual for 1919. (The regional Górnik Pennsylwański was published in Wilkes-Barre, not the county.)", "flags": [ "Founder and exact run-years unconfirmed — needs the full Ayer 1919 entry." ], "cultures": [ "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/cultures/poles" ] }, { "id": "valley-citizen", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Valley Citizen", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Valley View", "yearsActive": "1929–1975", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "defunct", "succession": "Merged with the Herndon News to form the Citizen-Standard (1975–present, Directory).", "notes": "The far-western county's weekly, serving the Hegins/Hubley Valley; its lineage continues in the modern Citizen-Standard." }, { "id": "west-schuylkill-herald", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "West Schuylkill Herald", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Tower City", "yearsActive": "1898–c.1977", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "defunct", "lccn": "sn89077652", "locUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89077652/", "notes": "Tower City's weekly, published for decades by the Knecht family (16,731 digitized pages run to 1977). Distinct from the Tremont West Schuylkill Press.", "flags": [ "Exact final-issue date undocumented online — needs State Library of PA microfilm or the county historical society." ] }, { "id": "west-schuylkill-press", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "West Schuylkill Press", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Tremont", "yearsActive": "1877–1969", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "defunct", "formerNames": [ "West Schuylkill Press and Pine Grove Herald (1937–1969)" ], "lineageGroup": "west-schuylkill", "succession": "Became the Press-Herald (Pine Grove, 1969), whose lineage continues today in the South Schuylkill News (Directory).", "lccn": "sn89077075", "locUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89077075/", "notes": "The western-county weekly of Tremont and Pine Grove. Not to be confused with the Tower City West Schuylkill Herald." }, { "id": "wmbt", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "WMBT (1530 AM)", "medium": "radio", "town": "Shenandoah", "yearsActive": "1963–2003", "language": "English", "category": "ethnic", "status": "defunct", "fccFacilityId": "29481", "fccUrl": "https://fccdata.org/?facid=29481", "notes": "A daytimer that signed on in March 1963 and carried Polish-language and ethnic coal-region programming. During the August 1963 Sheppton mine rescue, WMBT's young chief engineer Phil Margush lowered a microphone down the six-inch rescue borehole and established the voice contact that let rescuers speak with the trapped miners. The FCC cancelled its license on April 8, 2003.", "flags": [ "The exact March 19, 1963 sign-on day rests on secondary sources; the year 1963 and daytimer status are confirmed. The Sheppton audio-contact story is carried by a contemporaneous 1963 newspaper account and a 2006 Radio World profile, not by the encyclopedic Sheppton-rescue accounts." ], "sources": [ { "name": "FCC facility record — WMBT, Facility ID 29481 (license cancelled April 8, 2003)", "url": "https://fccdata.org/?facid=29481", "license": "reference" }, { "name": "Radio World — 'In 1963, He Crafted an Audio Lifeline' (engineer Phil Margush, WMBT)", "url": "https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/in-1963-he-crafted-an-audio-lifeline", "license": "publisher" }, { "name": "Township of East Union — Sheppton Mine Disaster (1963 newspaper account naming WMBT)", "url": "https://www.eastuniontownship.com/sheppton-mine-disaster/", "license": "reference" } ] }, { "id": "workingman-pottsville", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Workingman", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Pottsville", "yearsActive": "1873–1876", "language": "English", "category": "labor", "status": "defunct", "notes": "An 1870s labor paper of the county seat, contemporaneous with the Workingmen's Benevolent Association." }, { "id": "wpam", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "WPAM (1450 AM)", "medium": "radio", "town": "Pottsville", "yearsActive": "1946–2017", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "defunct", "fccFacilityId": "14741", "fccUrl": "https://fccdata.org/?facid=14741", "notes": "Signed on in April 1946; the original owner was Miners Broadcasting Service, a group of eight area residents. The station went silent on July 23, 2015, and its FCC license was cancelled on June 29, 2017.", "sources": [ { "name": "Wikipedia — WPAM (silent 2015; license cancelled 2017)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPAM", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0" }, { "name": "Beaver County Radio — 'Miners Broadcasting Service' (April 1946 founding; original owners)", "url": "https://beavercountyradio.com/news/70th-anniversary-moments-miners-broadcasting-service/", "license": "publisher" } ] }, { "id": "wppa", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "WPPA (1360 AM)", "medium": "radio", "town": "Pottsville", "yearsActive": "1946–present", "language": "English", "category": "general", "status": "active-historic", "historicMilestone": "Signed on May 9, 1946, and owned by the Pottsville Broadcasting Company (the Tidmore family) ever since. The station still operates; only its founding history is recorded here.", "fccFacilityId": "53134", "fccUrl": "https://fccdata.org/?facid=53134", "flags": [ "First-in-county status is NOT asserted: no reliable source confirms WPPA was the first commercial radio station licensed in Schuylkill County. Only the May 9, 1946 sign-on and continuous Pottsville Broadcasting ownership are verified." ], "sources": [ { "name": "Radio World — 'Pottsville Duo Bucks the Trends' (May 9, 1946 sign-on; Pottsville Broadcasting Co.)", "url": "https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/pottsville-duo-bucks-the-trends", "license": "publisher" }, { "name": "Wikipedia — WPPA", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPPA", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0" } ] }, { "id": "y-bardd", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Y Bardd (The Bard)", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Minersville", "yearsActive": "18??", "language": "Welsh", "category": "ethnic", "status": "defunct", "notes": "A brief-run Welsh literary periodical of Minersville.", "flags": [ "Thin detail — dates and run unconfirmed." ], "cultures": [ "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/cultures/welsh" ] }, { "id": "y-seren-orllewinol", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Y Seren Orllewinol (The Western Star)", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Pottsville", "yearsActive": "c.1844–1867", "language": "Welsh", "category": "ethnic", "status": "defunct", "notes": "A Welsh Baptist monthly edited and published by Rev. Richard Edwards; sold and moved to Scranton around 1868. Evidence that Welsh-language papers were genuinely published in-county, not only in Utica and Scranton.", "cultures": [ "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/cultures/welsh" ], "sources": [ { "name": "GENUKI — Welsh newspapers (National Library of Wales lists)", "url": "https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/Newspapers", "license": "reference" } ] }, { "id": "y-traethodydd-yn-america", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Y Traethodydd yn America (The Essayist in America)", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Minersville", "yearsActive": "1858", "language": "Welsh", "category": "ethnic", "status": "defunct", "notes": "A Welsh literary periodical, first number September 1858, published at Minersville (Vol. 1) and Pottsville (Vol. 2, at the Miners' Journal office); only five issues appeared. Editors Rev. W. T. Phillips and Rev. John P. Harries ('Ieuan Ddu').", "cultures": [ "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/cultures/welsh" ] }, { "id": "zvaigzde", "url": "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/newspapers", "name": "Žvaigždė (The Star)", "medium": "newspaper", "town": "Shenandoah", "yearsActive": "c.1901–1942", "language": "Lithuanian", "category": "ethnic", "status": "defunct", "notes": "A long-running Lithuanian Catholic paper of Shenandoah.", "cultures": [ "https://schuylkillhub.com/history/cultures/lithuanians" ] } ] }