The Mingo Republican (Williamson, 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.
1,057 issues from 1911 to 1949, published in Williamson, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Published in Williamson, the county seat of Mingo County, West Virginia from 1904 until 1951, the Mingo Republican declared itself the “Official Organ of the Republican Party in Mingo County” and “the Banner newspaper in the great Thacker coal field.” A weekly, and at least briefly twice weekly in early 1912, the Republican was usually eight pages but occasionally went at least as high as 10. Following the career of Republican West Virginia House delegate, state senator, and eventual congressman Wells Goodykoontz with particular interest and regularity, the Republican likewise never missed a chance to take a shot at Democratic politics at the local, state, and national level. Beyond this sort of expected political coverage though, the Republican included in its sections syndicated literature serials as well as news about professional baseball and Christian religious “Sunday School” lessons, with advertisements for regional small businesses and burgeoning mass-produced consumer goods typical for a paper of its time and place.
The Republican’s longtime editor, Orland Howson (O.H.) Booten, Sr. (sometimes spelled “Booton”), born in Gallipolis, Ohio around 1877, was a Spanish-American War veteran. According to his May 5, 1961 obituary in the state capital’s Charleston Daily Mail, Booten worked at several other papers in Ohio and West Virginia before coming to Williamson. In early January 1916, Booten’s name was temporarily replaced on the Republican’s masthead by “W.H. Needham,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Williamson, 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)
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- Library of Congress