Crestline Advocate (Crestline, Ohio) 1869-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
295 issues from 1920 to 1925, published in Crestline, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
This weekly newspaper was established to serve and inform the residents of Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio. Per the Village of Crestline’s website, the town was founded in 1850, relatively late when compared to other settlements in the area. Though beginning as a mere train station between Galion and Shelby, Crestline quickly developed into a modest-sized community and has remained an active railroad junction ever since. According to the 1912 book History of Crawford County, Ohio and Representative Citizens by John E. Hopley, the Crestline Advocate was started in July 1869 by Adam Billow, a self-taught printer. Hopley, a newspaper publisher himself, notes “It was four pages, 16×20 in size, and was published at the residence of the owner.” It soon expanded to eight or more pages with a greater density of content, and some years after Billow’s death was incorporated as the Crestline Publishing Company. Despite its humble beginnings, it was a well-produced, attractive paper, and its issue of December 15, 1921, proudly reviewed its fleet of new and modern printing equipment.
The Crestline Advocate primarily reported on Crawford County’s social goings-on, courthouse doings, deaths, marriages, and other local news. One such headline was that of September 1, 1921: “Famous Old Train is Coming to Crestline Next Saturday,” accompanied by a large picture of said train. Although photographs were not uncommon across the Advocate’s pages, most content came in the form of written…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Crestline, Ohio, 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