Bluefield Evening Leader (Bluefield, W. Va.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,298 issues from 1906 to 1910, published in Bluefield, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The newspaper industry of Bluefield, West Virginia had a tumultuous beginning. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph was established in 1869, and no other newspaper was able to rival it. Many thought that Bluefield was incapable of sustaining two newspapers; publications came and went seemingly overnight. The town saw the rise and fall of such titles as the Bluefield Journal, the Inter-State Advertiser, the Daily Journal, and the Daily Advertiser in the span of five years.
The Bluefield Evening Leader was among them. Thomas B. Garner established it in 1906 as part of the Bluestone Publishing Company (also known as the Leader Publishing Company). The Bluefield Evening Leader marketed itself as “The representative newspaper of the Pocahontas Coal Fields.” With this motto beneath the masthead, the paper clearly catered to the coal field audience. Published every day except Monday, and selling for two cents a copy, the paper printed local,national, and international news.
Garner very quickly realized that he could not manage the newspaper and sold both it and his publishing company to J. A. Muir in 1907. The town’s main newspaper, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, ran a piece welcoming Muir to the city; it stated that he had been a war correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War and may also have been a member of the Japanese Secret Service. This report may have led readers to assume that Muir’s specialties lay more in journalism and communications than on the business side of…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bluefield, West Virginia, 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