Washington Journal (Washington, D.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,884 issues from 1888 to 1963, published in Washington, District Of Columbia, digitised for Chronicling America.
In March 1871, Nehemiah H. Miller, Assistant District Attorney for the District Government, created a Republican German daily in Washington called Täglicher Washingtoner Anzeiger, a newspaper published daily except Sunday. Unlike Werner Koch’s newspapers, which avoided politics and political parties, the Anzeiger was openly political. In 1873, the Anzeiger ran into financial difficulties before Miller decided to sell his newspaper to Koch. On March 31, 1873, Koch merged the Columbia and the Täglicher Washingtoner Anzeiger to become the Washingtoner Journal, published daily except Sunday.
The Journal promoted the social and cultural activities of German Americans. Because it openly opposed the Temperance Movement, the Journal saw an increasing number of advertisements from Washington breweries, bars, and beer gardens, all of which provided financial assistance to the newspaper.
In April 1885, Koch reduced the publishing frequency of the Journal from six to three days a week. Two years later, the Washingtoner Journal was renamed the Washington Journal and reduced to a weekly. In 1892, Christian Strack became editor, and the Journal began including popular conservative serialized novels along with short stories, poems, and jingles produced by local talent.
On March 8, 1911, Werner Koch died from a lung tumor. In the March 11, 1911 issue of the Washington Journal, Strack wrote a tribute to Koch. In that same issue, an advertisement was placed for the sale of the Washington…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Washington, District Of Columbia, United States
- Language
- German
- 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