Sistersville Daily Oil Review (Sistersville, 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.
836 issues from 1902 to 1905, published in Sistersville, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Due to Sistersville’s location along the Ohio River, halfway between Wheeling and Parkersburg, the town became a hub of industrialization. The discovery of oil in the area further cemented Sistersville as an industrial powerhouse in the region. As a result, John H. McCoy established a newspaper, the West Virginia Oil Review. It was his first foray into the news industry, and it would prove to be extremely successful.
The West Virginia Oil Review began as a four-page paper with five columns to a page. In just a few years, with increasing revenues, McCoy was able to upgrade to eight pages with six columns per page. This expansion allowed McCoy to develop a newspaper industry, which employed twenty-five men and women, all because the West Virginia Oil Review quickly became the most patronized newspaper in the state.
McCoy would start publishing both the West Virginia Oil Review, a daily paper, and also the Tyler Democrat, a weekly paper. The West Virginia Oil Review would be known by many names. Under the ownership of McCoy, it would also be known as the Sistersville Daily Oil Review. Under his ownership this paper published not only local news, but also detailed information about the operations of the oil industries in the region. The paper published daily lists of completed wells, wells underway, and the prices of oil by county and state. Any news about the oil industry, at the local, state or national level was, of course, included in the paper.
The paper would change…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Sistersville, 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