Dresden Enterprise and Sharon Tribune (Dresden, Tenn.)

• 1914–1921
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

364 issues from 1914 to 1921, published in Dresden, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.

In 1883, Robert Lewis established the Enterprise in Dresden, Tennessee, to fill the void left after the closing of the Dresden Weekly Democrat, which had served the locality since 1876. Lewis had worked for newspapers in Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Nashville before settling into Dresden, located in Weakley County, an agricultural region which became home to the University of Tennessee-Martin in 1927. Below a masthead that acknowledged that “The World Moves,” the Enterprise brought local news each Friday for an annual subscription rate of $2.50 to Weakley County, an area with a rich newspaper history dating to the establishment of the Tennessee Patriot by James Leigh in 1838.

Addie Cardwell Lewis, Robert’s wife, had an active role in the publication of the Enterprise and later took over operations after her husband’s death in 1895. Although women had been participating in the operation of family newspapers since the colonial era, it was rare for a woman to be listed as the editor-publisher at this time. Under her leadership, the Enterprise increased advertising, editorial columns, and readership. Operating in a county of nearly 30,000 residents at the turn of the century, Lewis used the paper as a platform for the women’s and temperance movements. Joe L. Holbrook worked with Addie Lewis and, in 1901, he purchased the paper, which had since changed its name to the Dresden Enterprise. Holbrook operated the Enterprise for more than 40 years. Finis J. Garrett was co-editor for a…

Genres

News

Published in

Dresden, Tennessee, 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

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