The Beatrice Daily Express (Beatrice, Neb.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
10,962 issues from 1886 to 1924, published in Beatrice, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
Published six days a week over the course of forty years, the Beatrice Daily Express was an intimate and detailed portrait of an eastern Nebraska town as it boomed, faltered, and bounced back. Sunday was the lone day of the week when the Express fell silent. For the first half of its run, the Beatrice Daily Express was typically a simple four-page daily before expanding to a six-page paper. The cost of an annual subscription via mail reliably sat at $3.00. The Beatrice Daily Express provided an invaluable window into the news items that mattered most every day on the local, national, and international levels.
The Beatrice Daily Express, founded in 1884, grew out of a similarly named paper from the 1870s, the Beatrice Express. M.A. Brown was the initial leader of the Daily Express before a long succession of editors over the next four decades. Parallel to the Daily Express was a revolving series of weekly versions of the paper, including the Beatrice Weekly Express and the Semi-Weekly Express.
The Beatrice Daily Express was a proud suffragette publication. The staff of the Express featured content specifically tailored to women in a regular Woman’s World column. For one week in 1905, the paper was run each day by a different woman, giving them complete editorial control over that day’s content. As the Nebraska State Journal quoted the Express‘s announcement of the arrangement, “Not because we are tired…but because we defer to the ambitious, thinking women of our city, we…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Beatrice, Nebraska, 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