Chariton Courier (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-Current
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1,899 issues from 1878 to 1922, published in Keytesville, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Chariton Courier published its first issue on June 7, 1878. The Democratic paper was published on Friday in Keytesville, Chariton County, Missouri. Starting on January 1, 1892, it expanded to six columns and eight pages. For the previous 14 years, the paper had consistently been four pages long with eight columns.
Its first editor was James Alexander Hudson, who purchased the Keytesville Herald from William E. Jones in 1878 and changed its name to the Chariton Courier. Hudson started working at age 19 at a printing office in Macon, Missouri. He later moved to St. Louis and became a typesetter for the St. Louis Republican. In 1876, Hudson purchased the Macon Times and remained editor and proprietor of that paper for 20 years. Hudson’s tenure with the Courier, which he owned and edited at the same time, was shorter. By 1884, he sold the paper to Jesse Collins and Charles P. Vandiver. Hudson was well respected within both the newspaper industry and the Democratic Party. He was president of the Missouri Press Association in 1884-85 and assistant secretary of the national Democratic convention in 1896. Upon his retirement from the newspaper industry, he entered into real estate and later the telephone business. Hudson moved to Columbia, Missouri, in 1898 and organized the Columbia Telephone Company. He became a well-respected member of that city, and when he passed away on July 22, 1922, it was written “perhaps no name is better known to the citizens of Columbia than that…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Keytesville, Missouri, 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