People's Voice (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas)
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478 issues from 1892 to 1900, published in Wellington, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Lyman Naugle founded the People’s Voice of Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas, in 1890 as a Farmer’s Alliance organ. The paper ran with the tagline “At War with Class legislation and Maladministration – Equal Right to All; Special Privileges to None.” From March 16, 1894, to February 16, 1895, sheets of the People’s Voice were published simultaneously in nearby cities, identical except for the title and the names of local editors: Mulvane Voice, Charles S. Sheiman; Corbin Voice, Henry Howe; South Haven Voice, Rostein L. Wright; Argonia Voice, Eustace L. Wilson; Mayfield Voice, George R. Steele; Belle Plaine Voice, Charles Hatfield; and Hunnewell Voice, Lyman Naugle. The People’s Voice was published weekly for the majority of its run, with exception of a semiweekly schedule from November 1898 to early April 1899. Lyman Naugle also issued the Wellington Daily Voice from September 14 to November 7, 1896, a short-term paper intended “to keep the people of Wellington posted about what is going on from the silver people’s point of view” during the 1896 presidential election. Naugle stated that “when emergency arises, the Daily Voice may again come to life; until then we shall depend on the weekly – the biggest, brightest and best county newspaper in the southwest.”The People’s Voice featured political commentary, market reports, legal notices, advertisements, and news of local events. Circulation peaked in 1900 with over 2,300 subscriptions.
Soon after the paper began, Naugle…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wellington, 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