Arkham Advertiser

A newspaper. In 1917, when Wilbur Whateley was four and a half, the Arkham Advertiser printed Sunday stories about the lad's precociousness and Old Whateley's black magic. On a Wednesday in September, 1928 (probably September 12), the Arkham Advertiser carried a facetious little item from the Associated Press, telling what a record-breaking monster the bootleg whiskey of Dunwich had raised up (it was actually the Dunwich horror, Wilbur Whateley's twin brother). [HPL Dunwich (online text)]

The Arkham Advertiser letter column carried debating views about the historic Vermont floods of November 3, 1927. Some of this material was reprinted in Vermont newspapers in the flood region, such as the Rutland Herald and the Brattleboro Reformer. [HPL Whisperer (online text)]

The Arkham Advertiser published frequent wireless reports from the Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition of 1930-31, received via the Advertiser’s powerful wireless station on Kingsport Head. [HPL Mountains (online text)]

The Arkham newspapers carried the story of Laban Shrewsbury's disappearance in 1915 and his unexpected reappearance in 1935. Probably they also carried the story of Andrew Phelan's disappearance and presumed suicide on September 3, 1938, since the story was carried further afield, in the Boston Herald. [AWD Curwen]

In March, 1921, the Arkham Advertiser carried a brief notice stating that Mr. Ambrose Dewart desired assistance in repairing and refurbishing Billington House. The Miskatonic University Library has volumes of the Arkham Advertiser from a century ago. In the time of Alijah Billington, the Arkham Advertiser and the Arkham Gazette carried stories and letters about noises heard at night in Billington's Wood; the investigations by Rev. Ward Phillips, Deliverance Westripp, and John Druven; the latter's disappearance and the eventual finding of his mangled remains; the departure of Alijah and Laban Billington for England; and the disappearance of the Indian, Quamis. [AWD Lurker]

In March 1928, a slovenly middle-aged man sat behind the bar at a saloon in Innsmouth, reading a copy of the Arkham Advertiser. [AWD Clay]

In June 1929, the Arkham Advertiser carried an account of the disappearance of Septimus Bishop, and an article about the strengthening of one of the piers supporting the middle span of the disused Crary Road bridge bridge over the Miskatonic above Dunwich. Septimus Bishop's belongings included an envelope of clippings from the Arkham Advertiser, about mysterious disappearances in the Dunwich and Arkham region, principally of children and young adults, and the fury of the local inhabitants and their suspicion of an unnamed neighbor. In 1948, the Advertiser carried the story "Dunwich Disappearances Resume" about the disappearance of Seth Frye, and referring to the previous disappearances of 20 years previously. Eleven days after the destruction by fire of the old Bishop house, the Advertiser carried a story reporting that a central pier of the Crary Road bridge had been repaired again; this time being rebuilt in concrete and crowned with what old-timers in the area called "the Elder Sign." [AWD Middle]

At the late Luther Whateley's house, there were stacks of old copies of the Arkham Advertiser, and other copies were used to protect a bedspread. [AWD Shuttered]

A public library in Springfield had a file about the Whateley family in the Dunwich area, including obituary clippings from the Arkham Advertiser. There was also a thick envelope of clippings, chiefly from the Arkham Advertiser, about odd happenings in Dunwich in the summer of 1928. [AWD Watchers]

Amos Stark had a bound volume of the Arkham Advertiser. [AWD Wentworth]

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