The Butler County Press (Hamilton, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,742 issues from 1913 to 1946, published in Hamilton, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Butler County Press was established at the turn of the twentieth century in southwest Ohio by Edward E. Weiss and John F. Mayer as “the official organ of organized labor of Hamilton and vicinity.” Weiss and Mayer also involved themselves in the operations of its printer, Nonpareil Printing Company, and were known for fair, community-minded attitudes that kept the loyalty of their readers. Although they claimed no responsibility for the perspectives published in the paper, which they often sourced from other cities, the editors of the Butler County Press favored lighthearted material about everyday people. The final page of each issue was reserved for local business advertisements beneath the banner, “Patronize Hamilton Industries.” This page also featured a roster of nearby unions with instructions on when and where interested workers could join their meetings.
Hamilton and the surrounding Butler County hosted a range of manufacturers, including textiles and machinery, that made the area receptive to unionization. Rather than finding sponsorship with any particular industries or union groups, the Butler County Press was endorsed by the Trades and Labor Council of Hamilton, Ohio, which represented the interests of all working-class folk in the area. According to the newspaper, one of the major union ideals was “to allow the laboring men to live like Americans,” a sentiment that extended outside the workplace and into the community.
As the only newspaper publishing…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hamilton, Ohio, 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