The Winchester News (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
272 issues from 1908 to 1912, published in Winchester, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Winchester News issue hit the streets October 12, 1908. Robert Richard Perry, also editor of Winchester’s weekly Sun-Sentinel, created the News with local businessmen William A. Beatty and J.W. Chambers. The three men formed the Winchester News Company and set out to make the Winchester News Clark County’s first successful daily.
The News grew monumentally and within its first month boasted a circulation of 1,500–roughly 9 percent of the county’s population. Despite its quick success, the paper had a rather short run. Perry became seriously ill and turned control over to his daughter, Goldie. In early 1912, the family sold out to Lucien Beckner and Carl C. Robbins. The new owners immediately changed the title to the Winchester Sun, also the name of another paper Winchester Sun published from 1881 to about 1903–five years before the founding of the Winchester News. Under the leadership of Perry, Beckner, and Robbins, the Winchester Sun became the leading paper in Winchester and Clark Counties, a fact that still stands.
Perry attributed the News’ rapid growth to its ample advertisements, claiming that “no newspaper would be complete without its advertising.” Local businesses such as the Winchester Drug Company and Winn Furniture usually inserted an ad in every issue, enabling the News to publish eight full pages of daily copy for over a year. Although advertisements were important, the paper’s content was what attracted the mass of readers. A variety of articles…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Winchester, 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