Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
792 issues from 1892 to 1909, published in Goldsboro, North Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
Joseph Edward Robinson (1858-1931) and Luther Melancthan Nash (1861-1931) launched the Goldsboro Weekly Argus and its counterpart the Goldsboro Daily Argus in 1885. Robinson, a lawyer and lifelong newspaperman, had been the city editor of the Goldsboro Messenger for two years prior and served as editor of the Argus. Nash, a printer, held the position of publisher.
By some accounts, Charles Brantley Aycock (1859-1912), a Goldsboro lawyer and governor of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905, and William Clement Munroe (1849-1913), also a Goldsboro lawyer, were early partners in the Argus, but their names are not included in the newspapers’ mastheads.
Robinson’s partnership with Nash, Aycock, and Munroe was short-lived. By 1887, he is listed as the newspapers’ sole editor and publisher.
The Weekly Argus published on Saturday, and the Daily Argus, in its early years, published every morning except Monday. The Daily Argus was the only daily newspaper in Goldsboro and the surrounding Wayne County until 1892. There was significant overlap between the daily and weekly editions of the Argus with the weekly republishing articles from the daily edition.
Robinson supported Goldsboro’s economic growth, writing on April 14, 1892 that the paper “has kept itself always in the watch tower to hail every development and aid every enterprise in the great work of moving a community forward.” As a trustee of the Goldsboro Public Library, Robinson included minutes of library meetings, notices…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Goldsboro, North Carolina, 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