The Lexington Advertiser (Lexington, Miss.)
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1,962 issues from 1904 to 1963, published in Lexington, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
The long-running Lexington Advertiser, probably established in 1838 as the short-lived Lexington Standard and Holmes County Record, was one of the earliest newspapers published in Lexington, the seat of Holmes County in cotton-producing west-central Mississippi. Initially a Whig paper and later a Unionist journal, from the 1870s through the 1930s the weekly was a consistent voice for the mainstream Democratic Party in Mississippi.
During the middle period of its lifespan, when the Lexington Advertiser was known by several different titles, Rowland Austin Povall worked at the newspaper for over 45 years beginning in the mid-1890s. An original stockholder of the Advertising Publishing Company (APC) (1900-1941), Povall took a short hiatus from the firm, during which time he established the Democratic eight-page Holmes County Times (1906). The Times was absorbed by the older paper after a November 1906 fire destroyed the latter’s printing facilities. After the fire, Povall oversaw operations at the Advertiser until he sold it in 1941. The newspaper favored local news. It supported the gubernatorial policies (1908-1912) of another APC original stockholder, Edmund Favor Noel. From November 1935 until December 1939, when he was killed in a tragic accident, circulation manager James T. Buck wrote a “Rambles” column. In it he described his visits to area residents as he sought out current and potential subscribers and often wrote about the history of the county.
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- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lexington, 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