Newspaper Superlatives

As they work their way through the Rubenstein’s basement, the holdings management staff have been nominating newspapers for superlatives. And the winners are…

Longest Title (word count and number of characters): South Carolina Temperance Advocate and Register of Agriculture and General Literature (with incomplete issues from 1844 to 1854)

Shortest Title: Gay (from New York, with incomplete issues from 1969 to 1974)

Best Tag Line: “Published once in three hundred and fifty years,” from the Uncas Monument (from Norwich, CT, for July 4, 1842)

Cutest Newspaper: Journal of the Times (from Georgia, 1833)

Best in Show: Bicknell’s Reporter, Counterfeit Detector, and General Prices Current (from Philadelphia, PA, with incomplete issues from 1842 to 1857)

The Journal of the Times — asserting its cuteness with a quarter for scale.

Post contributed by Jessica Janecki and the Holdings Management Team in Technical Services.