The American Beacon

• id: 217
• end_date: January 7, 1854
• frequency: Daily (ex. Sunday)
• lineage_id: 59
• proprietors: Cunningham & Gatewood
• start_date: November 4, 1851
• variant_number: Norfolk 11-14
• notes: With issue of November 4, 1851, Cunningham & Gatewood proclaimed the Beacon to be a partisan journal (Whig/Know Nothing) after 36 years as an avowedly non-partisan daily, with an appropriate shortening of its title to remove former commercial focus. In February 1852, they began issuing a weekly edition of the Beacon () in addition to the tri-weekly one issued since January 1816; no copies of that variant are known extant.
• lineage_title: American Beacon
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