The Oakwood Press (Oakwood (Dayton), Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
822 issues from 1939 to 1954, published in Oakwood, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Oakwood Press was an 8- to 16-page weekly newspaper serving Oakwood, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, 1932-1954. The Press (as it frequently referred to itself) was usually distributed on Thursdays and was free to readers for most of its existence. It was one of several community papers published by the Dayton-Oakwood Press, who also offered a range of other printing services. Its sibling titles included various local editions of the Dayton Press from around the area. Combined, the Dayton-Oakwood Press’s titles boasted “Dayton’s Largest Circulation – 47,800” in 1939; by 1951, that had risen to 66,600.
As a community newspaper, the Press mostly discussed local matters. According to “A History of Oakwood’s ‘Fourth Estate,’” an essay by Harry G. Ebeling, it “carried news of school and athletic events as well as church and park happenings, honor societies, PTA and women’s interests. Classified ads filled several pages and it was the official publication for proposed ordinances.” Ebeling also writes that it “took an aggressive stand on issues of public interest,” as editorials were often pointedly critical of government inefficiency, bureaucracy, and taxes. Though the Press self-identified as politically independent, it tended to favor pro-business, small-government policies, declaring on January 29, 1953, “The smaller the unit of government and the closer it is to the people the more likely it is to be efficient and effective.”
The Press was also known to clash with other Dayton…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Oakwood, 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