Paris Express (Paris, Ark.)
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816 issues from 1900 to 1929, published in Paris, Arkansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1874, Arkansas voters in Sarber County (later renamed Logan County) selected an undeveloped site to host the county seat. The new town was named Paris, after France's capital, due to a county commissioner's admiration of that city. Paris is in northwestern Arkansas at the base of Mount Magazine in the Arkansas River Valley. A railroad line for the Arkansas Central Railroad was built to Paris in 1897, connecting it to Fort Smith. Railroad officials encouraged German Catholics to settle in the area to farm and then ship their crops for sale via train. The German Catholic community built a Catholic monastery, Subiaco Abbey, near Paris in Subiaco. The German community eventually established businesses in Paris.
In the 1900s, Paris became the government seat for the northern half of the county, with Booneville as the southern county seat. Cotton was one of the major exports from the area. In 1906, the first coal mine opened near Paris, and it quickly became a profitable venture for the city, drawing more inhabitants. A severe drought in 1930 and 1931 wiped out Paris's cotton crops and slowed the farming industry. Despite this, Paris fared better than many other areas during the Great Depression due to its lucrative mining industry.
James Tillman Perryman and William Henry Harrison Harley founded the Paris Express in 1880. The Express is the oldest business still in operation in Paris. Harley was the editor, while Perryman worked as the publisher. The Express was a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Paris, Arkansas, 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