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''Grit'' is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in the rural US during much of the 20th century. It carried the subtitle "America's Greatest Family Newspaper". In the early 1930s, it targeted small town and rural families with 14 pages plus a fiction supplement. By 1932, it had a circulation of 425,000 in 48 states, and 83% of its circulation was in towns of fewer than 10,000 population. ==History== The publication was founded in 1892 as the Saturday edition of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania, ''Daily Sun and Banner''. In 1885, the name was purchased for $1,000 by 25-year-old German immigrant Dietrick Lamade (pronounced Lam'-a-dee), who established a circulation of 4,000 during the first year.〔("Man of Grit: Dietrick Lamade and Sunday Grit," ''Sun Gazette''. August 17, 2008. )〕 Lamade was born February 6, 1859, in Gölshausen, Germany, one of nine children of Johannes Dietrick and Caroline Stuepfle Lamade. The family moved to Williamsport in 1867, where Johannes died of typhoid fever on January 1, 1869. To support the family, Dietrick, his sister, and his older brothers quit school. At age ten, Dietrick began working as an errand boy, earning a weekly salary of $3 in the office of a local German-language weekly, ''Beobachter'' (literally ''Observer''), when he was 13 years old.〔(Dietrick Lamade biography by Damon M. Laabs )〕 At 18, Lamade began printing theater programs and a four-page ad brochure, the ''Merchants' Free Press''. In the summer of 1880, he did ''Camp News'' for the Pennsylvania National Guard, and he married the following year. In 1882, Lamade became the ad compositor and assistant composing room foreman for the ''Daily Sun and Banner'', and that same year, ''Grit'' began as the paper's Saturday edition, typeset by Lamade. He left the ''Daily Sun'' in 1884 to launch the weekly ''Times'' as a daily, but finances and the health of the owner led the ''Times'' to cease publication. With two children and no job, 25-year-old Lamade became a publisher. Teaming with two partners, he bought the ''Times'' equipment plus the ''Grit'' name and goodwill. During his first year, he increased ''Grits circulation to 4,000. He operated from a third-floor single room, moving to a storefront location in 1886, establishing a weekly circulation of 20,000 by 1887.〔 With rapid expansion, a wagon of Remington typewriters was delivered to the ''Grit'' offices in 1892.〔Auken, Robin Van and Hunsinger, Jr., Louis E. ''Williamsport: The Grit Photograph Collection''. Arcadia, 2004. One title in Arcadia's ''Images of America'' series.〕 In 1894, one member of the art department was the 16-year-old C. W. Kahles, later famed as the creator of the long-run comic strip ''Hairbreadth Harry''. ''Grit'' displayed news and features aimed at rural America, and climbed to a weekly circulation of 100,000 by 1900, following an editorial policy outlined by Lamade during a banquet for ''Grits employees: While introducing such innovations as national newsboy delivery and direct mail, Lamade expanded his content to combine news, human interest articles, comic strips (sometimes filling ten pages), puzzles and serials in fiction supplements ("Grit Story Section"). Circulation reached 300,000 in 1916. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grit (newspaper)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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