The Brandon News (Brandon, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
837 issues from 1902 to 1923, published in Brandon, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Pearl River, a natural barrier, divided the original Hinds County, Mississippi in two, making it difficult for citizens on the east side to conduct business at the county seat, Jackson, on the west bank. To alleviate this problem, in 1828, all Hinds land east of the Pearl became Rankin County. Located in the fertile prairie of central Mississippi, agriculture was the primary livelihood where cotton, grains, and fruit were grown and livestock raised. Abundant woodlands supported a lumber industry. Starting out as a quiet village at the intersection of two territorial roads on the river’s east bank, Brandon, the county seat, became an important trading center and cotton shipping point. Despite proximity to Jackson, also the state capital, Brandon remained a small community until after World War II when population burgeoned.
Two influential Democratic newspapers consecutively served Brandon. Many Mississippi newspaper editors and publishers in the second half of the 19th century learned their trade from Colonel Andrew Jackson Frantz who ran the Brandon Republican (1850-94?) for most of its existence. Frantz died April 5, 1892; ten days later, in the Yazoo Herald, his sons advertised the Brandon Republican printing office for sale. Overlapping with the Republican for at least four months, the Brandon News began publication in early 1892. Editor and perhaps founder, Edward Bissell Tabor, was able to produce a successful newspaper in the void left by the Republican despite…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Brandon, 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