The Clarksburg Telegram (Clarksburg, W. Va.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
880 issues from 1893 to 1912, published in Clarksburg, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Clarksburg [West Virginia] Telegram traced its roots back to the tumultuous days of the Civil War. The weekly Telegram was founded in Clarksburg in 1874 by Robert S. Northcott, a Unionist and Republican who had spent time in the Confederate Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Northcott eventually turned the reins of the Telegram over to Wilbur F. Richards and Nathan Goff, Jr., a United States Senator. In 1891, a consortium of men purchased the paper from the Richards and produced a weekly iteration of the Clarksburg Telegram, with Stuart Reed serving as the initial editor.
The Clarksburg Telegram boasted a healthy circulation throughout central West Virginia. Usually eight pages in length, the paper covered a wide variety of topics, including national and international news, Republican politics and elections, labor issues, and local affairs. Local news always received extensive coverage; updates from civic organizations such as the Elks and Knights of Pythias usually graced the Telegram‘s pages, as did news from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Coverage of labor conflict appeared much less, likely reflecting the Telegram’s Republican leanings. Important world affairs–such as the Russo-Japanese War–occasionally found their way into the newspaper’s columns.
Local and national politics, however, dominated the Clarksburg Telegram, and the Telegram served as the local organ for the Republican Party. Stuart F. Reed, the editor of the weekly Telegram for its first…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Clarksburg, West Virginia, 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