Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
546 issues from 1880 to 1891, published in Mcminnville, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.
In October 1879, Rufus P. Baker established the Southern Standard in McMinnville, Tennessee. The paper appeared each Saturday and had an annual subscription fee of $1.00. Baker hired Dr. John R. Paine as editor, but the arrangement was short-lived, and after only a few months both men had left the paper. In early 1880, Professor Alfred Moore Burney, a retired president of the Cumberland Female College, became the Standard‘s new owner and editor. Colleagues at the neighboring Manchester Guardian approved of the appointment and welcomed Burney “to the journalistic ranks, knowing that he will honor the profession.” They went on to say: “We feel that in him we shall have an able and honorable coadjutor who will never lower the standard of the profession …. ” To affirm the Standard‘s political stance, Burney introduced the following motto to the paper’s masthead: “Democratic in Politics: Pure in Literature and Progress in Southern Interest”.
Burney remained at the Southern Standard for only a couple of years. In January 1882, printing was suspended briefly after Burney announced that he was leaving the newspaper business. In February, Dr. James Brown Ritchey and Mr. William Carroll Womack purchased the paper, and Frank Spurlock became editor. The new owners chose to emphasize farming concerns, adopting a new motto, “Devoted to agriculture interests of Warren and adjoining counties.” In September 1882, Radford M. Reams and Horace P. Newton purchased equal interest in the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mcminnville, Tennessee, 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