Iron County Register (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.)

• 1880–1922
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

2,225 issues from 1880 to 1922, published in Ironton, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.

For 94 years the Ake family owned and published the Iron County Register a weekly four-page paper published in Ironton, Missouri. Thomas Essex and William. H. Winfield published the first issue on July 6, 1867. The paper was politically conservative and supported the Republican Party, believing the party of Lincoln “to be just, right, and proper, and calculated to restore our whole Government upon a sure, peaceable, just, and safe basis.” However, the Register also vowed to advocate the truth regardless of party loyalty. It also promised not to “bore our readers with long, dry articles upon politics in every issue of our paper….Our chief object will be the social, moral, and physical development of Southeast Missouri.” News gathering during these early years was difficult. According to one account, “the reporter for the Register used to set out walking, and walk all over town finding out the information that he printed.”

A young Eli Ake found consistent employment with the Register after serving in the Union army and holding various jobs around Ironton. Ake’s newspaper career had begun before the war when he apprenticed as a printer under James Lindsay at the Ironton Furnace, a Free Soil paper that ceased publishing in 1861 due to the Civil War. After serving three years with the First Iowa Battery and participating in the Battle of Pilot Knob, Ake began publishing the Ironton Forge. After a year, he sold the paper and did not work on another until he took over the Iron…

Genres

News

Published in

Ironton, 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

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