The Home Journal (Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
784 issues from 1952 to 1958, published in Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Home Journal was published by Earl B. Ottley from 1951 to 1973 in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Initially, the newspaper was published on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, with four pages on weekdays and six pages on Saturdays. However, by 1953, Fridays were also included in the publication schedule.
The newspaper included a weekly supplement titled “Focus,” which was released on Sundays until November 1971, after which it was released on Saturdays from December 1971 to December 1973. During the period of 1968-1969, the Saturday edition of The Home Journal was distributed and sold separately on St. Croix as The Crucian Journal. Additionally, the volumes from October 1969 to March 1971 included a monthly supplement called “Carib.”
The Home Journal was a regional newspaper that included comprehensive coverage of Puerto Rico through its columns, “Puerto Rico Notebook” and “Puerto Rico Potpourri.” In addition to its weekly comics section, “the Funny Page,” the newspaper also featured the column “Clocking the Town,” which provided candid perspectives from residents on various community happenings. The publication also included public notices, calls for bids, and comprehensive legislative proceedings through its “Journal of the Legislature” and “Journal of the First Legislature of the Virgin Islands.”
Editorials and open letters by Crucian labor leader Ashley Totten were a prominent feature. Totten helped to unionize the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, 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