The Hickman Courier (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,097 issues from 1868 to 1922, published in Hickman, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Hickman Courier was established in 1859 by George Warren. A fire in 1861 destroyed the newspaper’s offices, and later attempts to revive the Courier were interrupted by the Civil War. In 1865, the Courier reappeared on a regular weekly schedule. The “Oldest Paper in Western Kentucky” that “Covers Western Kentucky Like Dew,” the Courier is still printed on Thursdays 150 years after it began.
The four-page Courier was popular from the start. In 1872, it boasted a circulation of more than 1,100. By the 1920s, the Courier had expanded to 14 pages. Hickman was situated on the Mississippi River, which meant that the Courier circulated in the neighboring states of Missouri, Tennessee, and Illinois. The Courier’s primary focus, however, remained the residents of Hickman and Fulton Counties. Columns such as “The Dairy” and “Corner for Farmers” offered agricultural advice to local farmers, reported on market prices, and discussed advances in farming technology. The women of Hickman turned to “Courier’s Home Circle” and “The Kitchen Cabinet” for weekly recipes, sewing circles, and information about domestic life in general. In 1919–the year of Hickman’s centennial celebration, the activities of Judge B.T. Davis appeared in 25 installments of “Looking Backward,” a column that chronicled the city’s history and early traditions.
The Hickman Courier openly supported the Democratic Party, and many of its editors were political and social activists. A topic often discussed in the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hickman, Kentucky, 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