The Aberdeen Weekly (Aberdeen, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
630 issues from 1878 to 1922, published in Aberdeen, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
Monroe County was created in 1821 from ancestral Chickasaw lands in northeast Mississippi. Established by a Scotsman as a trading post on the navigable Tombigbee River, Aberdeen was incorporated in 1837 and became the county seat in 1849. By 1910, Aberdeen had around 5,000 inhabitants and was a manufacturing and commercial center in the primarily agricultural region.
From 1842 through the first quarter of the twentieth century, Monroe County almost continuously had a Democratic four-page weekly beginning with the Mississippi Advertiser (1842–48). A series of talented and occasionally related newspapermen moved from one publication to another; Advertiser publishers William E. Smith and William D. Chapman published the succeeding Monroe Democrat (1848–52). When the next Democratic organ, the Sunny South (1856–66?), ended, Sidney Alroy Jonas and another former employee started the long-running Aberdeen Examiner (1866—2008). The Examiner, which also had a tri-weekly edition, eventually absorbed the successor to the Aberdeen Weekly (1878–1933). The Weekly‘s long-time publisher and editor, Thomas Tuley Deavenport, was the nephew of Matthew Deavenport, who published the Monroe Democrat toward the end of its run. Both the Examiner and the Weekly expanded from four to eight pages at some point in the early twentieth century.
All three antebellum papers had the typical mid-nineteenth century mix of content, including news, general interest articles, legal notices, and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Aberdeen, Mississippi, 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