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Newspaper The Connecticut Home (Willimantic, Conn.) 1886-1891

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About The Connecticut Home (Willimantic, Conn.) 1886-1891

“The Home is the Key-Stone of Our Civilization. True Temperance Means Moderation in the Use of Good Things, Total Abstinence from Bad Things.”

In 1886, Allen B. Lincoln, a member of the Prohibition Party, founded the Connecticut Home in Willimantic, Connecticut to bolster the cause of the Temperance movement. Strongly in favor of complete, federal-level prohibition, the Home came down against “high license” legislation, “rum power,” and “beer power,” and it was not shy in naming legislators and communities it perceived to be insufficiently committed to the movement.

The Home covered Temperance news from Connecticut and throughout the United States, provided regular updates on the activities of Temperance organizations including the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and reported on Connecticut political and local news, organized by town. To a lesser degree, the Home championed the cause of women’s suffrage. In 1892, the Connecticut Home merged with the Worcester Times, a similarly motivated Temperance organ published in Worcester, Massachusetts, to form the New England Home, which circulated concurrently in and around Hartford, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts.

From 1889-1891, the Home was comprised of four pages, growing to eight pages from July, 1891 to its end in 1894. The Connecticut Home was published weekly on Thursdays, and the New England Home was published weekly on Saturdays. For the entirety of its history under both titles, the Home cost $1 per year. While published as the Connecticut Home, the paper did not publish its circulation numbers, but the New England Home boasted a circulation of 7500 in 1892. The number grew to 10,000 in 1893, and the Home retained that estimate until its end in 1894.

Common columns in the early years included Prohibition Progress, W.C.T.U. Notes, Temperance Notes, Temperance by Towns, and News of the Week. Later editions, in 1893 and 1894, graduated to more specific, though equally Temperance-focused, headlines. Advertisements ranged widely and included ads for some patent medicines now known to contain alcohol, opium, turpentine, and ether. The Home featured a Willimantic Business Directory on the front page under its original title, changing to a list of Hartford Business Houses during its time as the New England Home.

According to Allen B. Lincoln’s two-volume A Modern History of Windham, Connecticut, Lincoln sold the Home to the publishers of the Chicago  Lever in 1894 and began a career in life insurance in Willimantic, Connecticut. For additional Prohibition and Temperance content from the same region at the same time, the Willimantic Journal, published from 185?-1911, reached the peak of its popularity just one year after the demise of the Home, and was also consistently in favor of the Temperance cause.

Provided By: Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT

About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Connecticut Home (Willimantic, Conn.) 1886-1891

Names

  • Lincoln, Allen Bennett, 1858-

Dates of Publication

  • 1886-1891

Created / Published

  • Willimantic, Conn. : Allen B. Lincoln

Headings

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 15, 1886)-v. 6, no. 15 (Dec. 26, 1891).
  • -  Published at: Hartford, Conn., Mar. 1890-1891.
  • -  "A state weekly newspaper devoted to the principle of the prohibition of the traffic of intoxicating beverages."
  • -  Supplements accompany some issues.
  • -  Also issued on microfilm from Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT.
  • -  Worcester times (Worcester, Mass.)
  • -  New England home (DLC)sn 92051312 (OCoLC)26182448

Medium

  • v.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn92051311

OCLC Number

  • 26182386

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The Connecticut Home Willimantic, Conn. -1891. (Hartford, CT), Jan. 1 1886. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/sn92051311/.

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The Connecticut Home Willimantic, Conn. -1891. (Hartford, CT) 1 Jan. 1886. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, aj.sunback.homes/item/sn92051311/.