Meade County News (Meade, Kan.)
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978 issues from 1900 to 1918, published in Meade, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Meade County News was founded in Meade, Kansas, on January 11, 1900. John D. Wehrle, editor and publisher, stated that “The principal aim of this News will be to promote the business interests of the city of Meade, and to further the principal industries of Meade County.” He went on to say: “Politically, we will state that it was through the influence and efforts of prominent Democrats and Fusionists that this paper was established… and we feel that it is our duty to support these men.” The Meade County News was the “The Official Democratic Paper in Meade County” in 1906 and the “Official County Paper” and “The Only Democratic Paper in Meade County” in 1914. The News was published every Thursday; circulation remained around 700 throughout its run.
The News covered local developments in Meade and the nearby communities of Jasper, Redbluff, Nye, Mertilla, and Green Valley, featuring marriage announcements and obituaries on the front page. On June 5, 1909, Wehrle sold the News for “personal reasons” to the Meade Publishing Company, Inc., a new stock company consisting of “some fifty of the leading business men and farmers” of Meade County. With this change in ownership, the News became an independent paper, “non-partisan in politics.”New editor Ezra D. Smith stated that “the News shall be a live, wide awake advocate of this county and city.” On July 14, 1910, John B. Miller became editor and remained with the News until July 6, 1911, when he left to edit the Bucklin…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Meade, 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