Madison County Democrat (London, Ohio) 19??-1958
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
832 issues from 1950 to 1958, published in London, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Madison County Democrat is a descendant of the National Democrat which began in London, Ohio, in 1857 as the first Democratic paper in Madison County. The National Democrat started under E. Douglass King as a seven-column folio, 18 by 24 inches. King sold the paper the following year to John M. Smith, who assigned D. Meade Creighton as editor and renamed the paper the Madison County Democrat to reflect an editorial focus on county news rather than news on the national scope. One of the printers, M. L. Bryan, bought the paper’s interests after Smith died. His sons Chester and Ormond inherited ownership and editorship in 1898. Between 1901 and 1923, the title varied as its publication frequency changed from weekly to semi-weekly, to tri-weekly and back to semi-weekly. It remained the Semi-Weekly Madison County Democrat for a number of years until it was shortened back to Madison County Democrat sometime before 1950. The title change may have coincided with Chester Bryan consolidating the Semi-Weekly Madison County Democrat with the London Enterprise in 1937 under the newly-formed Madison Press Company.
Both the Semi-Weekly Madison County Democrat and the Madison County Democrat published on Tuesday and Friday evenings. At some point between 1923 and 1950, an eighth column was added. The paper was distributed to a majority of homes in the county and adjacent trade area, and it described itself as “a real advertising medium.” Advertisements for automobiles, financial…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- London, 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