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The Rhyl Advertiser

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2022
Entity authorityQ20878264 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rhyl Advertiser (published between 1878 and 1893) was a weekly English language newspaper.

It was distributed throughout the Flintshire and Denbighshire areas in Wales. Associated titles: Rhyl Record and Advertiser (1886–1902, 1911–1917); Record and Advertiser (1902–1911).

Editorial summary

“The Rhyl Advertiser” enters the record as newspaper. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rhyl, Advertiser and newspaper can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1878, 1893, 1886, 1902—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1878-01-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rhyl, Advertiser and newspaper.
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Why this record matters

“The Rhyl Advertiser” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rhyl, Advertiser and newspaper provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q20878264. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1878, 1893, 1886 and 1902.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Rhyl Advertiser” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.