Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
17,668 issues from 1870 to 1926, published in Augusta, Maine, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Daily Kennebec Journal was first published Saturday, January 1, 1870, in Augusta, Maine, the state capital and the seat of Kennebec County. Before the Daily Kennebec Journal was established, the Kennebec Journal was published only as a weekly, though it had a supplement, the Maine Daily Journal, that was published during legislative sessions to provide news of government activity. The four-page daily editions were published every day except Sunday, and the weekly continued to be published on Wednesdays until 1913.
Sprague, Owen, and Nash were the publishers in 1870. The publishing credit was changed to Sprague & Son in September 1877. In 1882, Clarence Burleigh and Charles Flynt became the publishers. When editor John Stevens left in 1889, Burleigh and Flynt also took over editorial duties.
The front page of the 1870 inaugural edition of the daily paper describes the weekly paper and the new daily paper, including the price difference – $2.00 per year for a weekly subscription and $7.00 per year for the daily. A single copy of the daily could be purchased for four cents, but by 1882 that had dropped to three cents, and in 1912 to two cents. The daily paper describes itself as including “proceedings of the Legislature in full, also reports of proceedings of important committees and the Agricultural and Educational departments.”
The first edition specifically identifies service to the towns of Augusta, Hallowell, and Gardiner, though it mentions that it does intend to…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Augusta, Maine, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress