Kansas City Journal (Kansas City, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,031 issues from 1890 to 1899, published in Kansas City, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Kansas City Daily Journal was published in Kansas City, Missouri, between 1892 and 1897. The paper continued the Kansas City Journal, published in 1891-92, which traces its beginnings to the Kansas City Daily Western Journal of Commerce in the late 1850s. The Daily Journal identified as Republican politically and proclaimed itself the “official paper of Kansas City.” It also covered news in Jackson County and the rest of the state, as well as in nearby Kansas. During its run, the Journal claimed the largest morning circulation in Kansas City, with 22,928 copies distributed daily.
Its precursor, theKansas City Daily Western Journal of Commerce, was owned and edited by Colonel Robert T. Van Horn and David K. Abeel since 1858. In 1878, the name of the paper was changed to the Kansas City Daily Journal, and over the next 18 years, the title alternated between the Kansas City Journal and the Kansas City Daily Journal. Van Horn and Abeel maintained control of the Journal through the 1890s, with Van Horn serving as editor between terms in Congress. Colonel Van Horn’s political views were particularly important to the paper’s editorial character; he had been a Democrat prior to the Civil War, but became a Republican after the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln. In 1896, Van Horn sold the paper to Charles S. Gleed and Hal Gaylord, with William F. Craig as editor. Gaylord and Craig had worked on the staff of the Journal since 1892.
The Journal’s weekday and Saturday editions…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Kansas City, Missouri, 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