The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
9,128 issues from 1894 to 1922, published in Topeka, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Topeka [Kansas] State Journal is a continuation of the Topeka Blade, a paper founded by Clarke Swayze in August 1, 1873. George W. Reed bought the Blade in 1879 and changed its name to the Daily Kansas State Journal. Between 1879 and 1885, the paper underwent many changes in ownership, editors, and publishers. In 1881, Samuel N. Wood was editor and the State Journal Company the publisher. In 1882, Reed, Allen, and Co. became its publisher and later in 1883 its owner. The following year, the State Journal Company took over the paper and changed its name to the Topeka State Journal. In April 1885, the Journal went into the hands of a receiver, but in June, it passed back to the State Journal Company. Finally, in 1885, Frank P. MacLennan purchased the Journal; he published and edited the paper until 1940 when it was bought by Oscar S. Stauffer.
Frank MacLennan had worked for many years near newspapers. As a boy he folded papers and was a carrier for the Springfield Advertiser in Missouri. He then worked at nearly every department at the Emporia Daily News. When MacLennan saw that the Topeka State Journal was up for auction, he went to Topeka and won the rights. MacLennan was not initially pleased with his purchase and tried to sell the paper a year after he bought it. However, he was not able to get the price he wanted, so MacLennan kept the Journal and made vast improvements to its offices and equipment.
The Topeka State Journal was a daily and weekly newspaper, putting…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Topeka, Kansas, 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