Owingsville Outlook (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
411 issues from 1884 to 1922, published in Owingsville, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Owingsville Outlook was a weekly paper serving Bath County from 1879 through 1923. Thomas J. Young, a local politician and journalist, started the central Kentucky publication when many other papers in the area were competing for subscribers. Many of the men involved with the Owingsville Outlook were active politicians. Among the Democratic executive committee members associated with the paper were founding editor Young and a later editor C.W. Honaker–the latter unabashedly advertizing his drug store on the front page of the Outlook at every turn. Edward C. O’Rear, of Versailles, spent two years apprenticing at the paper before becoming a prominent lawyer and chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Little wonder, then, that the Owingsville Outlook offered a plethora of state and national political content alongside the regionally flavored articles of a more home-grown nature.
The activity of the Burley Tobacco Society, an organization designed to combat the American Tobacco Company’s monopoly, was a hot topic for Outlook readers. After netting huge annual profits, while local farmers were paid only a little more than the cost of production, “The Tobacco Trust” was often the target of Outlook editorials: “Farmers, don’t let the Trust do it without the best fight you can put up.” The upkeep of roads was another important issue. In the early 20th century, county governments across the Commonwealth lacked ample funds to manage roads, and, as a result, many were…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Owingsville, 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