The Hays Free Press (Hays, Kan.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
751 issues from 1908 to 1922, published in Hays, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Free Press was founded on September 29, 1888, in Hays, Kansas as the successor to a number of newspapers starting in 1882 with the German-American Advocate, catering to Volga Germans settling in northwestern Kansas. The Advocate underwent several name changes thereafter including the Hays City Times, the Ellis County Democrat and Advocate and its alternate the Advocate and Ellis County Democrat, and the Ellis County Free Press and Democrat, before becoming the Free Press in 1888. The Free Press was a Populist title until it became politically independent after 1901. It ran with the banner “Advocating the best interests of Ellis County all the time,” and then later the headline: “Ellis County’s Best Local Paper.” Continuing from the Ellis County Free Press and Democrat, Harry Freese was both editor and publisher of the Free Press; his son John Freese became editor and business manager in July 1907. The Free Press covered local and national news and included classified ads, legal notices, church notes, and a large amount of genealogical material.
After another title change, on June 13, 1908, the paper became known as the Hays Free Press. Harry Freese continued as publisher and John Freese as editor and manager. By mid-January 1914, Albert L. Clark and Sons had quietly taken over as publisher and managed the paper its end in July 1924. Like its predecessor, he Hays Free Press was politically independent. It was published weekly on Saturdays until 1918, and then on…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hays, Kansas, 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