The Central Record (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,296 issues from 1898 to 1922, published in Lancaster, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.
From its beginning in 1895, Lancaster’s Central Record chronicled developments in one of Kentucky’s most prosperous agricultural counties and the heart of its burley tobacco production. Lancaster’s only newspaper at its inception and for decades thereafter–an unusual distinction in turn-of-the-century Kentucky, where two or more papers were commonplace in towns of similar size–the Central Record offered a mix of international, national, and general interest stories with distinctly local and regional news, exemplifying the eclectic nature of Kentucky’s local press.
The Central Record‘s history is said to have begun in 1883 with an earlier Lancaster title called Central Kentucky News. James R. Marrs, founder and editor of Danville’s Kentucky Advocate, purchased the News from M.D. Hughes, renamed it, and in early 1890 presented the Central Record‘s first issue. In April 1895, Louis Landram and Henry Cartwright bought the Central Record. Just more than a year later, their partnership dissolved, leaving Landram as sole editor and publisher until late 1909. A contemporary described Louis Landram as a relentless advocate for the interests of Lancaster and Garrard County and a proponent of progress as defined by good roads, street lights, and local referendums on the sale of liquor. Landram later edited newspapers in the nearby towns of Richmond and Danville before his death in 1918.
Under Marrs the Central Record was Democratic in its politics, but Landram and Cartwright proudly…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lancaster, 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