The Wayne News (Wayne, 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.
453 issues from 1904 to 1919, published in Wayne, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Wayne Advocate began publication in 1874 in the county seat of Wayne County, West Virginia, a town known varyingly as Trout’s Hill, Fairview, and Wayne Court House before it settled on its modern name, Wayne. Shortly after its founding, the Advocate would move to nearby Cassville (now Fort Gay), though not without a rival version of the paper briefly appearing in Huntington under the same name as a result of an election dispute between Joseph Plymale and P.B. Lewis, the Advocate’s co-editors. In the Fall of 1874, Plymale supported Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and Advocate publisher Henry S. Walker, while Lewis, from Huntington, supported Walker’s incumbent Republican opponent, Arthur I. Borman. But neither candidate would be sent to Washington by the state’s electors, who eventually settled on dark horse Allen T. Caperton after weeks of deadlocked ballots.
Regardless, by May of 1880 Morgantown’s New Dominion reported that Hiram Kelly (“H.K.”) Shumate and W.M. Workman were editors of the Advocate, and that the paper was back at Wayne. Shumate was an attorney and former Confederate enlistee, who had been a prisoner of the Union during the Civil War. While editing the Advocate, Shumate started a business as a real estate agent, advertising his services in the paper, and charging readers a $1.25 yearly subscription fee. Across the Advocate’s four pages, one could also find advertisements for local hotels, attorneys, patent medicine, household appliances, and other…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wayne, 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