The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-02-12
NEWSPAPER NAMES.
PecuIiarities About Them Noted By
an Observaat Journalist.

PecuIiarittes About Them Noted By
an Observant Journalist
The old proverb that there is no ac-
COUNT ng for tastes finds a marked illus
traticn in the names which are given the
more than $4,000 newspapers and other
periodicals published in the United States.
When it is remembered that some Of these
names are repeated hundreds of times, it
might seem that there was a lack Of orig
inality in the coinage of newspaper names,
but study of the newspaper directories
quickly shows that some of the names
which have been adopted are not only
original, but most strikingly SO.
For example, Arkansas has Tack
Hammer at Viola and Greeley, Col, a
Rocky Mountain Howler. Pennsylvania
has daily Blizzard in OIL City, Cupid's
Sitting Room in Bangor, Multum in Par
vo in Clearfield, and the Derrick in Oil
City. South Carolina is favored with a
Psalm Singer in Due West, and the Cotton
Plant in Marion. Texas supports the
Quill in Abilene, the Cross Timbers in
Bowie, the Roundup in Cisco, the Cow
Boy in Dallas, Dot in Del Rio Jimplecute
In jefferson, Black Waxy in Mckinney,
and Quid Nunc In Round Rock. Arizona
has Silver Belt in Globe and the Daily
Tombstone in the city of that name in
place of the Epitaph, deceased.
The longest name is owned by Die
dustrie Zeitung: FOrtschritt Der Zeit,
commercial paper of Milwaukee. Atlanta,
Ga, has Light for Thinkers and Sparta
an Ishmaelite. Illinois has the Barry
Unicorn-Greenback, Blue Mound Cyclone,
Casey Acorn "a weekly at so cents year.,
and Chicago Alarm, the last the organ of
the Socialists. indianapolis has the Iron
clad Age, an anti-religious paper, and the
Scissors. Terre Haute has What Next?
an advertising sheet Iowa has at Angus
the Black Diamond. and at Fayette the
Postal Card. In Kansas, Atchison has
every week a Sunday Morning Sermon,
Observation-Disclosures Carbondale has
the Astouisher and Paralyzer, Clay Cen
tire Firebrand, Dodge City the Cowboy,
Garden City the Prairie Dog and a Bundle
of Sticks, and Valley Falls its Lucifer, a
free thought paper.
The Condenser operates at LeesviIle,
La, and Tip Top halls from Baltimore,
Md Massachusetts, has perhaps less va
Tiety OF newspaper names than other
States, and its Traveller is one of the most
unique of its names The most common
name is quite naturally that of News, by
which, either with or without a prefix,
some $50 papers are called. Forty-four
of these are in Illinois, 80 in New York 3S
in Ohio, "a in Pennsylvania, while the
others are scattered through the other
States and Territories There are 4se
called the Times, Al Journals, 4Uo Deno-
Gratis, 297 Gazettes, 273 Republicans, 1913
Enterprises, so Independents, $50 Trib-
unes, 1T9 Records, Il CouTiers, I7s Sen
tinels, 14o Presses, 1877 Registers, 1913
Chronicles 126 Reporters 1l9 Stars III
Reviews, los Suns, lO7 Leaders, 90 Ad-
vertisers, 9s Arguses, 90 Standards, 80
Free Presses, IS Posts, "A Bulletins, p
Expresses, Il Banners, 20 Observers,
63 Unions 81 Citizens, SO Messen-
gers, 81 Eagles So Dispatches 40
Advances, 40 Indexes, 46 Transcripts,
"a Mirrors, 80 Pioneers, 81 Com
mercials, 81 Globes, 35 Echoes, p Watch
men, q Mercurys, and 20 Nindicators
II is a little curious that some Of the In
dependents are most rabid partisan sheets.
/ Some of the most stalwart Republican
/ papers rejoice in the name of Democrats,
/ and others called Republicans are most
emphatically hidel und Bourbons. There
is at least one Democrat in every State
except two, and sturdy Republican Hi
nois heads the list with thirty-six of them
/ No State is without its Journal and News
I and every one but Delaware las Ga
Zette. As to language in which American
/ newspapers are printed, almost every ma
tionality is represented, showing the COS
mopolitan character of our civilization.
/ The German publications are of course the
most numerous, and they are followed in
order by the French, Scandinavian and
Spanish. There are five Polish, two Fin
+ nish, one Cherokee, and one Chinese pa
| pers. The United States takes the lead in
/ newspaper and per 'dical literature, If the
1 number in existence is to be made test,
nearly twO-fifths of the worlds publicR-
tions being publis ned in her territory.