ISLAND ARGUS 
     
    
   
   
    
     ISLAND ARGUS Nov. 4, 18691 - 1882.2 
     
     LOCATION Charlottetown, P.E.I.. 
     
     FREQUENCY Weekly on Tuesdays. 
     
     EDITOR AND J.H. Fletcher, Nov. 4, 1869 — June 
     
     PROPRIETOR 1879;3 
     
     J.H. Fletcher & Co., July 1, 1879 - 
     
     l880(?). 
     
     MANAGER C.P. Fletcher, July 1, 1879 - 1880(?).5 
     
     PROSPECTUS 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Island Argus began publication in 1869, when J.H. Fletcher 
     
     purchased the plant and subscription list of the North Star. It 
     
     was a Conservative newspaper which advocated reform. The paper 
     
     attacked Liberal corruption and hypocrisy while agitating for 
     
     the settlement of the Land Question and for the building of a 
     
     new asylum and poorhouse. Local and foreign news, fiction, 
     
     poetry, anecdotes and advertisements all appeared in the Island 
     
     Argus. Articles on agriculture and the Charlottetown City 
     
     Council were also featured. Early in 1881, the plant and good- 
     
     will of the Island Argus were purchased by the Examiner, which 
     
     amalgamated the Argus with the Examiner Weekly Edition to pro— 
     
     duce the Weekly Examiner and Island Argus.6 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     HOLDINGS 
     
     PAPEI masters Nov. 8, 1870 — Nov. 21, 1876 (2 reels). 
     
     CCL copy positives Nov. 8, 1870 - Nov. 21, 1876 (2 reels). 
     
     UPEI copy positives Nov. 8, 1870 — Nov. 21, 1876 (2 reels). 
     
     FOOTNOTES 
     
    

    
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     W.L. Cotton, Chapters in our Island Story (Charlotte— 
     
     town, P.E.I.: Irwin Printing Co. Ltd., 1927), p. 96. 
     
    
   
   
    
     2J.H. Fletcher, "Newspaper Life and Newspaper Men," 
     
     Prince Edward Island Magazine 2 (May 1900): 72. 
     
    
   
   
    
     3Teare's Directory & Hand Book of Prince Edward Island, 
     
     1880-1881 (Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Teare & Co., 1880), 
     
     pp. 474—475. 
     
    
   
   
    
     4Ibid., pp. 474—475. 
     
    
   
   
    
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