The Dawson News (Dawson, Ga.; Dawson, Georgia) 1889-Current
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2,005 issues from 1889 to 1925, published in Dawson, Georgia, digitised for Chronicling America.
George M. Roberts and Irby Goodwin Marshall purchased the defunct Dawson Appeal in March 1886 and published it as the South Western News beginning in June 1886. The four-page weekly circulated every Wednesday and shared the Democratic politics of its local competitor, the Dawson Journal. By May 1887, the News held legal advertising rights for Terrell County, which garnered a larger subscription base than the long-standing Journal and sent that older publication into a gradual decline. As a relatively small agricultural community just west of the larger cities of Americus and Albany, Dawson could not reliably support two newspapers with virtually the same politics and audience.
Roberts served as editor in chief, and W. L. Pilsbury joined the editorial department in February 1888; although Pilsbury left to take an editor position in Eufaula, Alabama, he remained connected to the News until his death in 1898. A young Thomas W. Loyless, who later achieved prominence for his criticism of the Leo Frank case as owner and editor of the Augusta Chronicle, began his newspaper career with the News in November 1888.
On March 13, 1889, Eugene Leigh Rainey assumed ownership of the South Western News and renamed it the Dawson News, a title that continues to the present day. Managing the paper for nearly 50 years, Rainey stands as the News‘s longest-serving editor and proprietor. He was a force in the local Democratic politics of Southwest Georgia, and his paper was as much a sounding…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Dawson, 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