The St. Louis Republic (St. Louis, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,191 issues from 1900 to 1906, published in Saint Louis, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The St. Louis Republic was published daily by George Knapp and Co. between 1888 and 1919. Its weekday editions consistently featured reports on local, national, and international politics; local or statewide criminal investigations; society news; financial news (particularly reports on the price of grain and local markets); classifieds, marriages and deaths; and editorials. Its Saturday edition typically consisted of two news sections with longer articles, poetry or fiction. Sunday editions included three or more news sections, a comics section, and a magazine featuring society news and events, literature reviews and excerpts, and articles about travel and culture. Beginning in 1903, the Sunday Republic combined the fashion and advice columns into a four-page “Women’s Magazine.” Monday editions also printed sermons from local Christian religious services. The paper averaged 15 pages during the week, with Sunday editions sometimes exceeding 80 pages, including the 20-page magazine. After 1912, however, the Republic failed to make a profit, and it was sold in 1919 to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The St. Louis Republic strongly supported preparations for the 1904 World’s Fair held in the city. In an April 7, 1901, editorial entitled “World’s Fair City,” the Republic wrote: “Loyal citizens contemplate the indicated developments of the next four years with a feeling of intense pride in the reasonable certainty of St. Louis’ tremendous advancements in the scale of American…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Saint Louis, Missouri, 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