Salem Observer

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The Salem Observer (1823–1919) was a weekly newspaper published in Salem, Massachusetts. Among the editors: J.D.H. Gauss,{{Citation |publisher = New England Magazine |date = 1896 |location = Boston |title = Men of progress: one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |editor=Edwin M. Bacon, Richard Herndon |ol = 7183032M}} Benj. Lynde Oliver, Gilbert L. Streeter, Joseph Gilbert Waters.{{Citation |publisher = W. Ives and G.W. Pease, printers |location = Salem |author = Gilbert Lewis Streeter |title = An account of the newspapers and other periodicals published in Salem from 1768 to 1856 |date = 1856 |ol = 22843162M }} Contributors included Wilson Flagg, Stephen B. Ives Jr., Edwin Jocelyn, E.M. Stone, Solomon S. Whipple. Publishers included Francis A. Fielden, Stephen B. Ives, William Ives, George W. Pease, Horace S. Traill.{{Citation |publisher = Sampson, Murdock |location = Boston, Mass |title = The Salem directory |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-PcCAAAAYAAJ |date = 1886 }}{{Citation |publisher = Essex Institute |location = Salem |title = Historical sketch of Salem, 1626-1879 |date = 1879 |oclc = 4198133 |ol = 24180081M }} In the 1880s Elmira S. Cleaveland and Hattie E. Dennis worked as compositors. Its office was located in "'Messrs P. & A. Chase's ... brick building in Washington Street'" (1826–1832) and the Stearns Building (1832–1882). "In 1882 the proprietors erected the Observer Building, of three stories, of brick, in Kinsman Place next to the City Hall."{{Citation |publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. |location = Philadelphia |title = History of Essex County, Massachusetts |author = D. Hamilton Hurd |date = 1888 |oclc = 3106590 |ol = 6905728M }} As of the 1870s, one critic noted that although "the Observer is supposed to be neutral in politics, ... it has always shown unmistakable signs of a strong republican tendency."{{Citation |publisher = A. A. Smith & company |location = Salem |title = Old Naumkeag |author = Charles H. Webber |date = 1877 |oclc = 2667812 |ol = 17869603M }}