The Daily Texarkanian (Texarkana, Ark.)

• 1894–1900
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

1,935 issues from 1894 to 1900, published in Texarkana, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.

Texarkana, established in 1873, extends across the state line into Arkansas and Texas. The area was first surveyed by railroad companies, and by the time Texarkana was founded, lines from the Cairo and Fulton Railroad connected Texarkana to the other end of Arkansas.The city’s motto is “Twice as Nice.”

In Arkansas, Texarkana serves as the Miller County seat, with the first courthouse completed in 1893. At that time, the city had a population of over 6,000. It was the terminus for several railroads, including the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, and Trans-Continental railroads. Other industries in town included machinery and car shops, streetcar lines, gas works, as well as an electric light plant, ice factory, oil mill, cotton compress, and telephone service. Industries in the surrounding area included timber harvesting, mineral extraction, and agriculture.

G. H. Wooten and his sons, Francis G. “Pete” and Jack Wooten, established the Texarkana Democrat in 1875 on the Arkansas side of Texarkana. It was a weekly paper published on Saturdays. The Wootens sold the paper in 1882 to Dayton B. Hayes and Ed A. Church, who added an afternoon daily edition in 1883. In 1884, Joe E. Cook and J. V. Scott bought the paper, but they quickly sold to E. A. Warren, editor, and Charles E. Mitchell that same year. The new owners changed the name of both editions to the Texarkana Independent and used the paper to promote Judge Mitchell as an independent candidate for Congress, though…

Genres

News

Published in

Texarkana, 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

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Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)

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