The Webster Echo (Addison, W. Va.) 1890-Current

• 1894–1927
• Newspaper

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1,075 issues from 1894 to 1927, published in Webster Springs, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.

Established in Addison, the county seat of Webster County, in 1883, The Mountain Echo was one of at least two papers in West Virginia at the time using that name. The other Mountain Echo was published in Keyser, the seat of Mineral County. In fact, Parkersburg’s The Freeman was forced to clarify to the Keyser paper that an excerpt the Freeman ran in September 1887 was from the Webster paper after the Keyser paper complained of misattribution. Attempts at avoiding outcomes such as these led both the Webster paper and its interlocutors to inconsistently refer to it as the Webster Echo (or even on occasion the Webster Mountain Echo) years before it officially adopted that title on its masthead. Complicating titular matters further is the name of Webster County’s seat. Though officially incorporated as “Addison,” the town was then and continues to be commonly referred to as “Webster Springs.” Thus, references to an “Addison Echo” in a few West Virginia newspapers between 1891 and 1902 serve only to obscure research regarding these publications and their place of origin.

While founded by J.N. Wolff, Webster’s Mountain Echo was turned over only after about eight months to B.C. Conrad in October of 1883. During this period of its existence, the paper’s slogan was “We Labor for the Prosperity of the People.” It was published weekly, on Fridays. According to the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, at some point prior to March 18, 1885, the Mountain Echo underwent a several month…

Genres

News

Published in

Webster Springs, West Virginia, United States

Language

English

Collection

Chronicling America

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None stated by the archive

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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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