The Daily Inter-Mountain (Elkins, 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.
1,163 issues from 1907 to 1913, published in Elkins, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Published in Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia from 1892-1929, the Inter-Mountain was a 4-8 page weekly newspaper “Devoted to the Interests of West Virginia and the Principles of the Republican Party.” Though Elkins would not become the county seat until 1899, its prominence, like that of its namesake, Republican Senator Stephen B. Elkins was never in doubt for readers of the Inter-Mountain. Initially released each Friday, the paper had a slew of editors and managers throughout the 1890s, including: F.C. Helmick, M.S. Cornwell, and H.G. Blaker, and by 1896 its release day had been moved to Thursdays.
Yet the paper’s most consistent editor was Herman Gordon “H.G.” Johnson, Sr., who held the position by 1902 and was still listed on the paper’s masthead almost two decades later. The November 11, 1920 issue of the Inter-Mountain describes Johnson as the paper’s “sole owner,” and indeed Johnson bought the paper outright from the Inter-Mountain Publishing Company at the beginning of his tenure. But in 1921, the Inter-Mountain Publishing Company’s name was added back to the masthead, with Johnson described merely as “editor and manager.” This development came perhaps as a consequence of Johnson’s being elected a West Virginia state senator. In any case, the weekly folded less than a decade later in 1929.
Subscriptions to the weekly edition of the Inter-Mountain cost $1.00 per year if paid in advance and $1.25 otherwise. And while the paper’s title would not officially…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Elkins, 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