Daily New Dominion (Morgantown, 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.
1,928 issues from 1897 to 1903, published in Morgantown, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
“Devoted to the interests of Monongalia County,” Morgantown, West Virginia newspaper the New Dominion ran weekly throughout the Gilded Age, from 1876-1904. Julian E. Fleming helmed the paper as its “proprietor and editor” during the entirety of this almost thirty-year span. Initially in partnership with W.L. Morgan, Fleming gained sole control of the New Dominion by 1879. The December 19, 1885 issue ran a retrospective history of newspapers published in Monongalia County from the beginning of the nineteenth-century, mentioning one William Jacobs as also having conceived the paper alongside Fleming.
Released every Saturday until October of 1897, when it switched to Wednesdays, the New Dominion was published in two, 26-issue volumes per year from its inception until October of 1882, at which point it opted for one 52-issue volume per year instead. To someone not aware of this quirk, later volume numbers of the paper can make it appear as if it had been running 10 years longer than it actually did. Regardless of the volume, the paper was consistently four-pages and did not increase its $1.50 per year subscription price at any point in its history.
Given the paper’s Democratic Party affiliation, it might come as little surprise that according to an 1895 biographical sketch, Fleming had a brief appointment to a “government store-keeper” position during Grover Cleveland’s first term. Perhaps more surprising is that Fleming resigned from said post. Indeed, contrary to Cleveland,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Morgantown, 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