Ceredo Advance (Ceredo, 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.
1,131 issues from 1885 to 1915, published in Ceredo, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Ceredo Advance began publication in October 1885. Published weekly, it was originally owned and operated by Col. Thomas Theodore (T. T.) McDougal and W. I. Mansfield; however, by December 1885, McDougal was the sole proprietor of the paper. McDougal was a career newspaper operator, starting around 1882, when he bought Lee C. Salyes’s interest in the Ceredo Enterprise. He published that paper for a while, then went on to launch the Ceredo Advance in 1885 and the Kenova Reporter around 1892. Ceredo, a suburb of Huntington, West Virginia, is situated just beneath the Ohio border and also right next to the Kentucky border. Due to this close proximity, many stories and advertisements within the paper are from other states, and thus speak to the connection that Ceredo had with Ohio and Kentucky in addition to West Virginia
The Advance‘s slogan made a clear political stance: “A Republican Newspaper that has a large circulation in the Big Sandy and Twelve Pole Valleys—an excellent advertising medium.” The paper’s advertisement of itself as a Republican paper shines through on several occasions, making it obvious that this was not a paper afraid of voicing its opinion. For example, in its February 7, 1906 issue, the paper takes a stance on moving the Wayne County seat from Wayne to Ceredo: “Let us enjoin on you the great importance of getting out the vote in favor of removal on next Tuesday.” This editorial established the Advance‘s willingness to speak its opinion as a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ceredo, 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