The Calhoun Chronicle (Grantsville, W. Va.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,247 issues from 1884 to 1923, published in Grantsville, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Although only a few issues of the Calhoun Chronicle survive, enough details exist to piece together a rough image of the rural West Virginia weekly. Established in 1883 by Robert M. Marshall as a “local journal devoted to the interests of Calhoun and the adjoining counties,” the Chronicle featured the usual columns found in late nineteenth-century newspapers: local affairs, national and international news, short stories and anecdotes, songs and poems, and sage advice for home and field alike. Four pages in length and published weekly, Marshall’s early production of the paper proved shaky, and publication was inconsistent.
Robert Marshall would be the first in a revolving door of owners for the Calhoun Chronicle. In the 1890s, he sold the paper to Samuel C. Barr, who improved its consistency and quality. The Point Pleasant The Weekly Register praised the Chronicle in September 1900 as “one of the best conducted papers in the State” and its editor as “the only real independent editor we know of in the State.” This independent streak, particularly Barr’s progressive views, did not always sit well with Democratic readers, but Barr nevertheless stated his intent to “speak what he believes is the truth until the heavens fall.” Perhaps owing in part to Barr’s rebellious political nature, the paper again changed hands in 1900, when Robert Hays and Samuel P. Bell took over, infusing the paper with a Democratic political slant. Although Bell quickly left, Hays stayed on until 1911,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grantsville, West Virginia, 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