The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph (Bucyrus, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
516 issues from 1920 to 1921, published in Bucyrus, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
This daily, eight-page evening newspaper served Crawford County, Ohio, from 1894 to 1923. Its founder and editor, John Edward Hopley (1850-1927), was a member of the prominent Hopley journalism family, who, besides running several successful publications, were leading citizens in the town of Bucyrus. They were also active and prominent members of the local Republican Party, despite Crawford County being reliably Democratic territory until the mid-1920s. Fellow Republican newspaper operator and later president Warren G. Harding (from nearby Marion, Ohio) was a friend of the family, and several Hopleys (including John E.) were given minor political appointments by Republican administrations throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Hopley’s 1912 book, History of Crawford County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, states that the Bucyrus Evening Telegraph’s predecessor, the Evening Telegraph, began in October 1887 as the “organ of the Young Men’s Republican Club” before ultimately developing into a permanent publication. The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph retained that Republican voice throughout its tenure. During its regular coverage of the 1920 presidential campaign, the paper’s preference for Harding was unmistakable, and on the day after the election it triumphantly hailed the landslide outcome with the bolded headline “Harding’s Victory Exceeds Roosevelt’s.” Besides political coverage, the Telegraph offered a wide variety of general news. National and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bucyrus, Ohio, 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