The Hayti Herald (Hayti, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
682 issues from 1909 to 1922, published in Hayti, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Hayti Herald began publication in 1909 in Hayti, Missouri. Charles Stuart York, the brother of the Hayti Herald publisher, William York, had dabbled in the newspaper business in the late 1890s as a partner in the Pemiscot Argus. After business disappointments related to the paper, Charles Stuart York sold his share, and the Argus was moved to Caruthersville. In seeking to revive a Hayti-based newspaper, William York wrote in the first issue of the Hayti Herald, “We wanted to take our first love back because we had learned by a sad experience that few countries were equal to Southeast Missouri as a place to live and for a small newspaper no better place than Hayti could be found.” The Herald appeared weekly on Thursdays and advocated for Democratic Party politics throughout its run.
The Herald often harshly criticized competing papers, sometimes engaging in long-running feuds with their editors. As an editorial declared, “About nine times out of ten you can judge a town by its newspaper just as you can judge a man by his horse or his dog” (January 28, 1909). On July 21, 1910, the Herald asserted, “This paper is open, bold, fearless, and while we expect to treat everyone with due consideration and respect, we are not to be cowed or bluffed, and any attempt to sidestep us will result in the discomfort of the parties attempting it.” The line that “we will not be cowed or bluffed” reappeared in editorials throughout the William York’s editorship. During 1912, William York…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hayti, 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