Americus Times-Recorder (Americus, Ga.; [Americus, Ga.?]) 1891-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
7,277 issues from 1900 to 1925, published in Americus, Georgia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Prominent Americus citizen and lawyer, Merrel Callaway, and J. R. Christian, established the Americus Tri-Weekly Recorder in mid-May 1879 in Americus, Georgia; the four-page paper carried a subscription rate of four dollars. Although the older Sumter Republican retained legal advertising for Sumter County, the Recorder became neighboring Webster County’s paper of record. Callaway editorially advocated for the Democratic Party, but he set a precedent by promoting Americus and Southwest Georgia issues. William L. Glessner purchased the Recorder in December 1881 with the intention of making Americus “the commercial centre of Southwest Georgia.” By 1884, assisted by H. C. Storey, Glessner transitioned to daily circulation, and the Americus Daily Recorder became Sumter County’s legal organ in February 1885.
In January 1890, a stock company led by Callaway established the Americus Times as a daily morning paper. R. H. Brumby and J. W. Furlow served as editors for the Times, which quickly became a direct competitor to the Recorder. Americus proved unable to sustain two daily papers, and both titles suspended publication in March 1891. Bascom Myrick, however, organized a merger, and the combined Americus Times-Recorder appeared in April 1891. Myrick became editor in chief and business manager while Glessner, Alf Harper, and Furlow assisted him. After the merger, Glesser wrote, “one good paper, well sustained, will do more for Americus than two papers fighting for an existence.”…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Americus, Georgia, 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