The Fairmont West Virginian (Fairmont, 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.
3,070 issues from 1904 to 1914, published in Fairmont, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The product of a joint stock company formed by local Fairmont businessmen, the Fairmont West Virginian served as a leading Republican newspaper in north-central West Virginia. The paper was a daily iteration of its probable predecessor the West Virginian, and indeed, several of the daily Fairmont West Virginian‘s initial editors previously worked for the weekly version. Beginning publication in 1904, the Fairmont West Virginian was published daily every evening except Sundays.
Usually comprised of eight pages, the Fairmont West Virginian offered news and commentary on a wide variety of topics. Its daily issues often featured sections on local and national news, business, women’s topics and home affairs, sports, and classified advertisements. Perhaps reflecting the business roots of its owners, the paper paid little heed to the labor issues that wracked West Virginia in the early 20th century and remained largely aloof from labor union affairs. International news also received coverage, particularly the growing war in Europe and the United States’ eventual involvement in World War I, of which the Fairmont West Virginian proved supportive.
Politically, the Fairmont West Virginian mirrored its weekly forerunner and functioned as the Republican Party organ for Fairmont and Marion County, West Virginia. At the time of the paper’s launch, managing editor Lamar C. Powell was a Republican candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates. Unsurprisingly, the paper supported…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Fairmont, 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