Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal (Atlanta, Ga.; Atlanta, GA)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
953 issues from 1901 to 1920, published in Atlanta, Georgia, digitised for Chronicling America.
With new printing presses, Colonel E. F. Hoge published the first issue of the Evening Journal on February 24, 1883, in Atlanta, Georgia. The four-page daily was organized under a stock company with Hoge as editor in chief and Charles S. Atwood as general manager. The paper aligned politically with the Democratic Party and maintained that support throughout twentieth century political realignments. When Atlanta’s nationally recognized hotel, the Kimball House, burned on August 12, 1883, the Journal rose to prominence by being the first newspaper to report the incident. Hoge published an extra edition covering the fire and employed hundreds of newsboys to distribute the paper.
In 1885, an ailing Hoge sold his controlling interest to John Paul Jones and F. F. Wilson. After Hoge’s death on August 10, 1885, Jones purchased all outstanding shares. By June 1887, Jones, now sole proprietor of the paper, sold the Atlanta Journal to a newly organized stock company headed by Hoke Smith, Henry H. Cabaniss, and Josiah Carter. All shareholders of the newly named Atlanta Journal Company were prominent Atlanta residents, and the Atlanta Journal experienced significant growth from the ensuing capital. By late 1887, the paper became the first Southern newspaper to publish a daily woman’s page. Carter was editor in chief, until F. H. Richardson replaced him in January 1891.
In 1894, the Atlanta Journal gained another edge over the Atlanta Constitution when the Associated Press gave the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Atlanta, Georgia, 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