The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Ky.)
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5,331 issues from 1887 to 1904, published in Maysville, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.
Maysville’s storied Democratic newspaper, the Bulletin, was founded by James J. Ross and George S. Rosser in 1862. First known as the Dollar Weekly Bulletin, in two short years the paper changed its name to the Maysville Weekly Bulletin (it appeared simply as the Bulletin for one week in October 1864 before suspending publication until January 25, 1865). By 1866, the paper was known as the Maysville Bulletin
In 1869, Ross and Rosser had taken a man named Welch into their publishing fold, but the partnership was short lived as the original two were sole publishers again by 1870. When Ross died in 1880, Rosser took on M.J. McCarthy as his publishing and editing partner. The following year, Rosser and McCarthy decided to launch a daily paper, which they called the Daily Evening Bulletin. They also sold the weekly Maysville Bulletin. The Daily Evening Bulletin appeared every day except Sunday and, like its predecessors, reported on both state and national activities of the Democratic Party in addition to covering local society and national news. Rosser and McCarthy could not seem to settle on a permanent title for the daily, and, in 1882, they changed its name to the Evening Bulletin, before reverting one year later to the Daily Evening Bulletin. In 1887, the paper was christened the Evening Bulletin, a title which it retained for the next 18 years.
The Evening Bulletin enjoyed a healthy rivalry with Maysville’s best known Republican paper, the Daily Public Ledger. The two…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Maysville, Kentucky, 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