The Waxahachie Daily Light (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,968 issues from 1902 to 1917, published in Waxahachie, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Established in 1894, the Waxahachie Daily Light outlasted its local competitors to become one of the oldest continually published newspapers in the state of Texas. A community of 100 settlers established Waxahachie as the county seat of Ellis County in 1850. The city has supported a weekly newspaper since the Waxahachie Argus began publishing in 1866. Just prior to the founding of the Light, there were at least three other weekly newspapers publishing in Waxahachie: the Ellis County Mirror, the Waxahachie Enterprise, and the Waxahachie Democrat. In 1895, the editor and publisher of the Light, A. S. Williams, purchased the Democrat and consolidated the two newspapers into one weekly Democratic newspaper. In 1896, this eight-page weekly edition was published on Thursdays and measured 15 by 22 inches, with a yearly subscription cost of $1.50 and a circulation of 750. The daily (except Sunday) edition averaged six pages, measuring 13 by 20 inches, and had a yearly subscription cost of $5.00.
The Light and the Enterprise were published from the same plant in the late 1890s. W. J. Buie, who edited the Enterprise and managed its business operations, purchased both the weekly and daily edition of the Light, discontinuing the weekly edition by 1900. Buie raised the newspaper’s profile in the state by serving as president of the Texas Press Association from 1901 to 1906. In 1902, Buie’s Light Publishing Company was managing both the Enterprise and the Light. Buie, along with…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Waxahachie, Texas, 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