Sharp County Record (Evening Shade, Ark.)
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1,526 issues from 1877 to 1919, published in Evening Shade, Arkansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Sharp County, established in 1868, is in northeastern Arkansas bordering Missouri. Lying in the Ozark Mountains, it was known for its good hunting and timberlands. At the end of the 1800s, the county primarily produced cotton, corn, wheat, pork, butter, and livestock. Tourism was another revenue source; caves and rivers attracted visitors to Cave City. Evening Shade served as the county seat until 1963, when it moved to Ash Flat.
In 1877, John W. Buckley founded the Sharp County Record in Evening Shade to serve the southwestern section of the county, which included Ash Flat and Cave City. He published the four-page, Democratic paper on Fridays to a circulation of less than 500, out of a town of less than 300. Despite challenges from publishing news encompassing a large rural area, the Record was described by other newspaper men as “a magnificent news gatherer.” In 1881, Buckley established another county paper, the Izard County Register (1881-19??), in the next county over, in the city of Melbourne. Buckley became editor for the Register and hired David Craige in 1882 to manage the Record in Evening Shade.
Craige had moved to northeastern Arkansas in 1852, where he worked at half a dozen newspapers during his lifetime. Craige took only brief breaks from the newspaper business, working as a farmer only after his paper folded due to the Civil War. At various times, he took work breaks for his health, which had always been poor. Craige returned to work after one of his…
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- Evening Shade, Arkansas, United States
- Language
- English
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- Chronicling America
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