The Butler Weekly Times (Butler, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,882 issues from 1881 to 1918, published in Butler, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Butler [Missouri] Weekly Times was the creation of Dempsey G. Newsome and a printer named Lawhorn. On December 11, 1878, the two men published the first issue of the Bates County Times. Lawhorn’s association with the paper only lasted a few months, but Newsome continued publishing the weekly eight-column paper by himself. Newsome took on another partner when Charles T. McFarland purchased an interest on April 21, 1879, thus creating the firm of Newsome and McFarland. They continued to jointly own and publish the Times until McFarland bought out Newsome on January 1, 1880, and became sole proprietor, editor, and publisher.
McFarland changed the name of the paper to the Butler Weekly Times starting with the December 7, 1881 issue. The name change coincided with a format change to enlarge the paper to six columns and eight pages. McFarland recounted the history of the Times in an editorial. According to McFarland, the Times had been in trouble when he became its sole owner, but in less than two years he was able to turn it around. The paper increased its circulation and resolved its financial problems. In the same editorial, McFarland also boasted about the daily paper he started on May 26, 1881, the Butler Daily Times which, however, was discontinued the following year.
McFarland remained proprietor, editor, and publisher of the Butler Weekly Times until failing health forced him to retire. Jacob D. Allen took over the management of the Times beginning in July 1882.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Butler, Missouri, 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