The Chanute Times (Chanute, Kan.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
886 issues from 1897 to 1913, published in Chanute, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Chanute Times of Neosho County, Kansas, was founded on January 1, 1897, after new owner Charles S. Nation purchased the Chanute Vidette-Times and desired that the paper be “restored” to its original name. Nation stated that “the greater portion of the paper will be devoted to the news of the day, the politics will remain republican.” Albert H. Turner took over as editor and publisher by July 1898 after Nation left to open a real estate, loan, and insurance office in Chanute. Turner remained at the helm of the Times until its end in 1913. In his first issue, Turner declared: “We are for the Republican ticket, not because of any particular, personal friendship for the men that chance to be thereon, but because of our deep convictions of the right aed [sic] justice of the underlying principles upon which the party is founded.” The Chanute Times remained Republican in affiliation throughout its lifetime.
Both Nation and Turner boasted that the Times enjoyed the highest circulation rate of any newspaper in Chanute. However, the Times faced heavy competition from two other Republican papers, the Chanute Weekly Tribune and Chanute Daily Tribune, and none of them provided consistent circulation statistics during this period. As best as can be determined, the Chanute Times averaged about 1,500 and the Chanute Weekly Tribune about 1,100 subscribers. Local news, birth and death notices, marriages, political matters, high school and society notes, and fiction pieces were often…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Chanute, 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