The West End News (Frederiksted, St. Croix [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.
1,305 issues from 1953 to 1963, published in Frederiksted, Virgin Islands, digitised for Chronicling America.
The West End News was established in 1912 in Frederiksted, St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. It was published by West End Pub. Co. and had several editors over its 61-year run. Axel Ovesen was the first editor, serving from 1912 to 1919. B. Brandt served as editor from 1920 to 1921, followed by Paul E. Joseph who served as editor from 1924 to an unknown date. The final years of the paper were led by Cephus N. Rogers, who served as editor from an unknown date to 1972, before the paper ceased to be published in 1973.
A November 1953 publisher’s block reads: “The West End News Published Daily, Sundays and Holidays Excepted” although the distribution varied throughout the years. The paper ran daily from 1926 to 1955. From 1955 to 1965, the frequency changed to triweekly then to semiweekly in 1965. It continued to alternate between triweekly and semiweekly until June of 1969 when it was published weekly until the final issue in 1973.
Throughout its publication, issues consisted of four pages, with four columns on the front page and three columns on subsequent pages with dates given two at a time, e.g., Wednesday and Thursday.
A strong sense of camaraderie existed among the newspaper publishers of the Virgin Islands. This connection is particularly evident in The West End News, whose advertisements for various products were reprinted in the St. Croix Avis as far back as 1919.
Local newspapers often reported on the activities of fellow editors, treating them as celebrities.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Frederiksted, 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