Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
NWS 1980.15 |
Title |
Winchester Star Centennial Edition |
Collection |
Printed Material |
Object Name |
Newspaper |
Date |
1980 |
Scope & Content |
This collection includes the complete issue of the 144-page Winchester Star Centennial Edition of 1980 plus clippings of each historical feature organized by subject. Subjects include The Winchester Star, beginnings, growth, leaders, library, police, fire, post office, schools, wars, industry, portraits, business, health, recreation, social life, church life, seniors, and looking ahead. In addition to some articles on business, the paper also includes a number of advertisements which document local businesses at the time. With the aid of many community organizations and residents who provided materials and illustrations, the articles were written by Star staffers Jacquelyn Clermont, editor of the Centennial issue, assistant editor Anne Marie Reidy, and Kathryn Jorgenson who did some writing along with copy editing. Individual articles are not signed. |
Admin/Biographical History |
The first issue of The Winchester Star was printed in June 1881. The newspaper was founded by F. I. and W. E. Whittier in Stoneham. In 1880, Theodore P. Wilson (1851-1919) came to the Star as its first reporter and in 1888 became the editor. A year later he bought the paper from the Whittier brothers. His wife, Ella Katherine (Tupper) Wilson, made regular contributions. After an apprenticeship which began in 1898, son T. Price Wilson (1879-1954) succeeded his father as editor. The office was originally in the Lyceum Building, moved to the Miller Block on Mt. Vernon St., and finally moved to its own building constructed on Church Street in 1915. After T. Price Wilson's death, his son-in-law Richard A. Hakanson (1920-1972) became the publisher while James H. Penaligan (1895-1978) became editor. In 1969, due to Hakanson's ill health and retirement, Ernest and Jason Dade purchased the paper. A change to phototypesetting and offset printing being needed, the Dades sold, in 1971, to Kay and Peter Jorgensen, and the Star became part of the firm Century Publications, Inc., which owned it when the Centennial Edition was published. |
Copyrights |
Permission to publish material from this collection is subject to approval by the Town of Winchester. |
Finding Aids |
A finding aid with detailed information about the contents of the collection is available. Contact the Archives for a copy. |
Search Terms |
ABC Ann Blackham real estate Apollo Decorating Art Association Badminton Club Baldwin Apple Barbas Food Mart Baskin Robbins Beggs & Cobb Black Horse Bootery Bonnell Ford Boodakian Rugs Boy Scouts Brigham's Catholics church Chitel's Christian Science Church Street Elm Church Women United Civil War College Club Country Club Crittenton Circle D'Agostino Deli Delta Fabricators Ecumenical association Elks En Ka Estates Garden Club Fashion Cleaners Fells Hardware Fire Department First church Friends of Hospital provide service Garden Club Girl Scouts Grade crossing Hemroulle sheets Historical Society Home and Garden Club Home for Aged Indoor Tennis & Racquetball James Johnson fuel company Jaycee Keystone Battery Lane Funeral Library Lynch's Market McKay Metallic Fastener Company Medical Mission Mercurio Insurance Agency METCO Middlesex Canal movie war Mystic Council New Hope Baptist church Newcomers Nowell movers Old Colony Bank Ouimet Caddie Scholarship Police Department Post Office Printed Circuit Railroad Randall's Rotary Club Schools Shuh Shuh Gah Canoe Club Smyly Sons of Italy South Woburn St. Eulalia's Suffragettes summer band Tennis The Fortnightly The H.P. Hood Co. The Town Archives Town Seal Unitarians Waterfield Wellesley Club Winchester Music Society Winchester Star Winn company Winton Club Women's Club Jrs. World War I World War II |
People |
Brackett, Edward A. Cameron, Jennie (Burnham) Chadwick, Harrison Church, Adeline (Barnard) Cole, J. Foxcroft Ginn, Edwin Goddu, Louis Groux, Thomas Knowlton, Henry Lord, Dorothy MacDonald, William Metcalf, Joel H. Moore, Fredrika Rich, Leonor Skillings, David Nelson Stinson, Mabel Teele, Warren Tseckares, Charles Wigton, Darlene Wilcox, Lesley (Brown) Wilson, Ella Katherine (Tupper) Wilson, Theodore Price Wright, Philemon |
Containers |
Winchester Star Centennial Edition Winchester Star Beginnings & Growth Leaders Town Departments Wars Industry Portraits Business Health & Recreation Social Life Church Life & Seniors Looking Ahead |