The Hattiesburg News (Hattiesburg, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,508 issues from 1908 to 1917, published in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
Hattiesburg, in south Mississippi, was founded by lawyer and regional railroad magnate, William H. Hardy, in the mid-1880s. The town was established near the confluence of the Leaf and Bouie Rivers on the line of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad connecting New Orleans with Meridian, Mississippi. The seat of Forrest County, Hattiesburg was named after Hardy’s wife, Hattie.
By 1901, the four-page Hattiesburg Daily Progress, established by William H. Seitzler, was the first daily paper published in Hattiesburg. A preceding title, the Hattiesburg Progress had been distributed semi-weekly as early as 1897. Shortly after publishing a personal editorial in the August 3, 1903 issue of the Daily Progress regarding readers’ canceling their subscriptions because of political disagreements with him, Seitzler sold the paper to James J. Haynie. While there are no extant issues from 1904 to 1907, N. W. Ayer & Son’s American Newspaper Annual 1907 edition indicates that the Progress was still being published during this period, but under a William Moffett Jr.
The Hattiesburg Daily News, another Democratic newspaper and the rival of the Progress, was an eight-page daily founded by the Hattiesburg Publishing Company in 1907. Frank R. Birdsall, and Herbert A. Camp, both former editors of the Greenwood, Mississippi journal, the Commonwealth (1896-1923), were original stockholders of the company; Edgar G. Harris joined later. The Daily News initially ran as a morning paper, but…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 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