TY - JOUR
KW - Newspapers
KW - Publishers
KW - Fires
KW - German language
KW - Politicians
AU - Ernst Ritz
AB - A history of the community's first English-language weekly newspaper which began as a campaign publication for local businessman Samuel Merner. The author describes the involvement of George W. Dawson, Otto Pressprich and the Ritz family and outlines advances in printing technology.
BT - Waterloo Historical Society
C1 - Merner, Samuel; Young, James; Dawson, George W.; Pressprich, Otto; Ritz, Jacob; Ritz, Daniel; Ritz, Charles; Beger, Robert; Mueller, Berthold, Rev.; Meier, Ferdinand; Lattimer, Walter; Ritz, Clara; Ritz, Tillie; Spill, Michael; Ritz, Lorne W.; Ritz, Otto; Ritz, Richard; Mills, Jack; Williams, Bill; Martin, Larry; deJong, David; McLean, William; Roy, Michael; Arnold, Steven; Schultheiss, John; Fortin, Arthur
C2 - New Hamburg Independent; Canadisches Volksblatt; Pressprich and Ritz, New Hamburg
C3 - New Hamburg
C4 -  1878-1978
C7 - Unknown(0)
DP - Bloomfield, Elizabeth. Waterloo County to 1972: an annotated bibliography of regional history. Kitchener : Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993
ID - 1256
M1 - Journal Article
M3 - Print(0)
PY - 1978
SP - 123
EP - 132. ill.
EP - 
T1 - The {New Hamburg Independent}'s first century
T2 - Waterloo Historical Society
VL - 66
ER -