The Chronicle-Star Combined With the Moss Point Advertiser (Pascagoula, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
444 issues from 1941 to 1949, published in Moss Point, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1941, Pascagoula newspaper the Chronicle-Star, which die-hard Democrat Pizarro Kemp Mayers founded in 1854 as the Reformer, merged with another Jackson County, Mississippi paper for the third time. For a month, the title of this union with the Moss Point Advertiser (1909-1941) was the Chronicle-Star the Moss Point Advertiser, after which it became the Chronicle-Star Combined with the Moss Point Advertiser. Content of this 12–18 page weekly included a typical mid-century mix of news, general interest articles, editorials, advertisements, announcements, personals, and legal notices. Semi-regular columns carried local news for Moss Point, Ocean Springs, Pascagoula, and Van Cleave, plus other county towns. During the first half of the 1940s, the paper focused on updates from World War II battles. News about the local war effort included the construction of military vessels for the United States Navy at the Ingalls Corporation shipyard located where the Pascagoula River empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
After a three-year search for a suitable deep-south newspaper, native New Orleanian, World War II veteran, and former Times-Picayune writer, Ira Brown Harkey, Jr. purchased the Advertiser in 1949. Harkey reverted the title to the Chronicle-Star the Moss Point Advertiser, expanded the number of pages per issue, and in October 1957, he started publishing it twice a week. In 1961, the title was simply the Chronicle, and in 1962, it became a five-day-a-week daily. Devoted to equal…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Moss Point, 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