{{Short description|Defunct newspaper}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Lewiston Daily Sun | logo = | image = The Lewiston Daily Sun May 31, 1989.jpg | caption = Front page on May 31, 1989 | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = {{start date|1893|02|20}} | ceased_publication = {{start date|1989|06|03}} | owners = | publisher = | circulation = | headquarters = 104 Park Street<br />Lewiston, Maine, U.S. | publishing_country = United States | ISSN = | oclc = 9248627 }}
'''''The Lewiston Daily Sun''''' was a newspaper published in Lewiston, Maine. Established in 1893, it became the dominant morning daily in the Lewiston-Auburn city and town area. In 1926, its publisher acquired the ''Lewiston Evening Journal'' and published the two papers until they merged into the ''Sun Journal'' in 1989.
==History== Henry Wing founded ''The Lewiston Daily Sun'' on February 20, 1893.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sun Man Dead|work=The Berkshire Eagle|date=February 10, 1912|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63399358/|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 16, 2020}}</ref> Hoping to compete with the Republican-leaning ''Lewiston Evening Journal'', it proclaimed itself in its first issue as "the only Democratic daily paper published in central Maine."<ref>{{cite web|first=Paul H.|last=Mills|title=The Press Herald, Sun Journal marriage and a glimpse at the journey to their present destination|work=Daily Bulldog|date=July 31, 2017|url=http://www.dailybulldog.com/db/features/the-press-herlad-sun-journal-marriage-and-a-glimpse-at-the-journey-to-their-present-destination/|access-date=November 16, 2020}}</ref> Five years later, it was purchased by George W. Wood, who merged the paper with his weekly ''Maine Statesman'' and changed its editorial stance. In its first two decades, circulation quadrupled from 2,000 copies per day to 8,000, thanks largely to the arrival of Rural Free Delivery in the region.<ref name="maineahistory">{{cite book|first=Louis Clinton|last=Hatch|title=Maine: A History|volume=4|pages=164–165|url=https://archive.org/details/mainehistory04mainuoft/page/n281/mode/2up|date=1919|publisher=The American Historical Society|place=New York|oclc=1101997|access-date=November 8, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
In 1926, Wood acquired the ''Lewiston Evening Journal'' and began printing the two papers from 104 Park Street in Lewiston.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lewiston Journal Plant Is Sold|work=The Boston Globe|date=January 25, 1926|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63398780/|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 16, 2020}}</ref> On his death in 1945, Wood left the paper to his general manager and nephew by marriage, Louis B. Costello. Costello's son Russell, who succeeded his father in 1959, merged ''The Sun'' and ''Evening Journal'' in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|title=Russell H. Costello, 88|work=The Boston Globe|agency=Associated Press|date=June 10, 1993|page=59|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53530791/|access-date=November 22, 2020|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Content== ===Editorial stance=== ''The Sun'' embraced an "independent Republican" label from 1898 into the late twentieth century, as opposed to the ''Evening Journal'', which identified as "independent."<ref>{{cite magazine|title='Married' 37 Years Ago, Papers Still Competitive|work=Editor & Publisher|date=November 17, 1962|volume=95|issue=46|page=65|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1962-11-17_95_46/page/64/|access-date=November 16, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Still, manager Costello stressed the importance of journalistic objectivity to those who worked under him, and both papers gained a reputation for being socially progressive but not so much as to alienate readers averse to change.<ref name="maineahistory"/><ref name="pendexter">{{cite web|title=Pendexter, Faunce oral history interview|interviewer=Meredith Gethin-Jones|work=Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection|pages=22–23|publisher=Bates College|date=May 14, 1999|url=https://scarab.bates.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1322&context=muskie_oh|access-date=November 16, 2020}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=IT5EXw6i2GUC&hl=en Archive] at Google News
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Category:Newspapers published in Maine Category:Mass media in Androscoggin County, Maine Category:Mass media in Lewiston, Maine Category:Newspapers established in 1893 Category:1893 establishments in Maine