The Starkville News (Starkville, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
829 issues from 1902 to 1920, published in Starkville, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
After the Civil War, Oktibbeha County in east-central Mississippi, became known for breeding livestock and raising dairy cows. With active backing from the state chapter of the agrarian organization Patrons of Husbandry, the state’s original land grant institution, the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College — now known as Mississippi State University, first opened its doors to white students in 1880. The college was located just outside of Starkville, the county seat and commercial center.
Perhaps established in 1860 under another name, according to the 1876 George P. Rowell and Company’s American Newspaper Directory, the East Mississippi Times (1870-18??) was published under that title by 1870. In 1926, a probably related newspaper with the same name (19??-1926), was absorbed by another four-to-eight page Democratic weekly, the Starkville News (1902-1960). Although the Times began publication on Thursdays, by 1908 both it and the News came out on Fridays except for two months in November and December 1910, when the Times changed to Saturdays. The November 19, 1910 issue of the East Mississippi Times may explain this shift, stating that the newspaper was temporarily being printed in Memphis until their broken press could be repaired or replaced. The longest serving publisher/editor of the Times was William Ward who ran the newspaper for around 30 years until it ceased publication in 1926. Meanwhile, respected lawyer Thomas J. Wood bought the Starkville News…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Starkville, 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