The Kemper Herald (Scooba, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
281 issues from 1902 to 1908, published in Scooba, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
East-central Mississippi, where Kemper County is located, is part of the traditional Choctaw homeland. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, crops, primarily cotton and corn, thrived in the county’s prairies; lumbering contributed to the economy in forested areas. First incorporated in 1838, DeKalb, the county seat, occupies the site of an older Choctaw town.
From 1892–1903, The Kemper Herald (1875–1908), earliest in a long-running string of related titles, was published by Miss Brinkley “Binnie” Vinson in the railroad town, Scooba, the largest settlement in the county at the time. In nearby DeKalb, John Thomas Gewin edited another four-page weekly, distributed on Wednesdays, known as the The Southern Star (1898–1908). The Star supported the short-lived Populist Party (1892–1909), the political arm of the turn-of-the century agrarian movement. The two papers united in 1908 to form The Kemper Herald-Star. By 1910, John Thomas Gewin’s son, Crawford, published the merged title and continued the Herald‘s support of the Democratic Party. The 1923 edition of N. W. Ayers & Son’s American Newspaper Annual and Directory indicates that the title had reverted to the Kemper Herald. After absorbing The DeKalb Sentinel in 1932, the newspaper became the Kemper County Messenger. From 1936–42, Crawford Gewin’s older brother, John, published the Messenger. John’s son, Mercer, edited the journal and wrote the column “Here, There, and Yonder” until Lamar Sledge purchased the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Scooba, 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