Baxter Springs News (Baxter Springs, Kan.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,543 issues from 1890 to 1919, published in Baxter Springs, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Baxter Springs News of Cherokee County, Kansas, was established on February 23, 1882, by James B. Rowley, and was published by the Baxter News Company. Rowley declared in the premier issue that the “the News has been started simply because the interests of Baxter Springs demanded it, and for the additional reason that perchance its publication will bring wealth to their editors… the News, as indicated by its unassuming name, will make a specialty of notable happening, both here and elsewhere, interspersed with comments and opinions upon all subjects of interest.” The Baxter Springs News was “An Independent Paper Devoted to the Interests of Cherokee County,” and was published weekly on Saturdays, on Thursdays starting mid-November 1903, and on Fridays beginning February 1918. The size of the paper ranged from four to 12 pages. The News frequently mentioned surrounding mineral springs and included a recurring column titled “The Mines.” Local and national news, advertisements, correspondence from the Quapaw Indian Reservation, and details about city council proceedings were often featured, along with occasional reports on love matches and marriages in the area in various articles titled “Cupid’s Work,” “Cupid Very Busy,” and “In Cupid’s Net.” Circulation for the News peaked in 1910 at 1,400, when the Baxter Springs’s population was just over 1,700.
Marion H. Gardner purchased the Baxter Springs News in October 1882 when James Rowley took a job with the Kansas City…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Baxter Springs, 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