The Ripley Advertiser (Ripley, Miss.)
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319 issues from 1843 to 1884, published in Ripley, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
Tippah County was established in 1836 from land ceded to the United States by the Chickasaw. Located in the northeast corner of Mississippi, its mostly timbered, hilly terrain and fertile creek bottoms were more suitable for small farms than large plantations. Most landowners had few, if any, slaves; in 1860 slaves accounted for around 28 percent of the county population, well below the state average 55 of percent.
The first newspaper in Ripley, the Tippah County seat, was the four-page weekly Ripley Transcript (1837-1842?); owned and edited by James B. Walker, it began the year the town incorporated. Walker proposed to “. . . furnish the news of the day in the commercial and political world . . .” and “to promote and uphold the interest of the farmer merchant and mechanic [sic] . . .” Although the paper’s political affiliation is not clearly stated, the state and local political candidates it featured supported the Whig-backed national bank as a solution for the financial crisis. The newly independent Republic of Texas was a common editorial topic; locally, reliable mail delivery was a concern.
After 1842 and until 1879, the Ripley Advertiser (1842-1897?), a four-page Democratic weekly, was often the town’s only newspaper. By September 1843, John F. Ford was proprietor/publisher and also usually the editor of the Advertiser. Early content included literature, editorials, legal notices, legislative and local news, advertisements and prospectuses of other newspapers. After…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ripley, Mississippi, 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