The Chattanooga News (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
907 issues from 1918 to 1920, published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.
Jerome Balaam Pound and William M. Bearden published the first issue of the Chattanooga Evening News on July 2, 1888. Pound gained his initial experience in newspaper publishing at the age of 16 when he established the Macon [Georgia] Daily News in1884. After four years, he sold the paper and moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he entered into a partnership with Bearden and began publishing the Chattanooga Evening News (the word “evening” was dropped from the title in 1891). During his three-decade-long tenure in the newspaper industry, Poundalso revived the Knoxville Sentinel (1891), purchased the Knoxville Tribune (1894), and established the Memphis Morning News (1902). Pound later ventured into the hotel business and also owned several radio stations throughout the American South in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1909, Pound sold the Chattanooga News to George Fort Milton, who incorporated the holding as the Chattanooga News Co. and became its president and editor.
Under Milton’s leadership, the daily newspaper thrived through the World War I years. Despite paper shortages that crippled some newspapers in the United States, theChattanooga News averaged a healthy wartime length of 15 to 20 pages per edition at a cost of five to six cents for single-issue sales and $5 to $6 for an annual subscription. Troops located at nearby training camps such as Camp Warden McLean could purchase single copies of the newspaper for a discounted three cents per issue.
Upon purchasing a copy…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, 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