Randolph Enterprise (Beverly, 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.
1,489 issues from 1894 to 1927, published in Beverly, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Published in Beverly, the original seat of Randolph County, West Virginia from its inception in 1874 until 1900, and then in the new seat of Elkins thereafter, the Randolph Enterprise was a Democratic Party-aligned weekly newspaper “[d]evoted to the Best Interests of Randolph and Adjacent Counties and the Development of West Virginia.” Though initially consisting of four pages, by 1903 that number had doubled to eight. While most often released on Thursdays throughout its run, there were occasional periods when the Enterprise hit shelves on Wednesdays or Fridays instead. Though charging readers a $2.00 per year subscription fee during the 1880s, by the 1890s, the paper’s yearly cost came down to only a dollar, a relatively common price for papers in the state at the time.
Columns in the Enterprise included: local news items headed under “Within the Borders of West Virginia,” national news featuring letters from a correspondent in Washington, D.C., a county business directory, political candidacy announcements, and a widely-syndicated piece of writing from the Reverend Doctor Thomas De Witt Talmage. Across the entirety of its run, the Enterprise‘s reporting was reprinted in papers throughout the Northern and Eastern Panhandles and North Central region of the state, in both ideologically-allied publications like the Wheeling Register, West Virginia Argus, and Weston Democrat, as well as Republican, sometime-rivals such as the Wheeling Intelligencer, Fairmont West Virginian,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Beverly, 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