Marble Hill Press (Marbel [Sic] Hill, Mo.)

• 1889–1922
• Newspaper

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1,605 issues from 1889 to 1922, published in Marble Hill, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.

James Green Finney began publishing the Marble Hill Press as a four-page paper each Thursday from Marble Hill, Bollinger County, Missouri. According to an article published in the Press on January 4, 1894, the paper began as the Southeast Reflector under George W. Harrington in 1881. In July of 1882, it was sold to Benjamin Franklin Stevens, who in 1883 in turn sold the paper to Jasper Frymire and James Green Finney. They changed its name to the People’s Press. Within several months, Finney became the sole owner, and in the summer of 1889 he changed the name of the paper to the Marble Hill Press. Finney continued to edit the paper until July of 1891 when it again changed hands. In 1896, Finney launched a second paper, the Bollinger County Times, but his journalism career ignominiously ended on October 15, 1901, when in a drunken state he shot and killed Steven H. Allen, a blacksmith from Marble Hill.

The Marble Hill Press survived this incident and the string of editors and owners who ran the paper over the next several years and went on to become one of the longest-running and most respected newspapers in Bollinger County. John F. Sander and George F. Kurre bought the Press in 1891. In 1892, a young man named Tom Allen acquired Kurre’s interest in the paper, and, the following year, Allen bought out Sander’s share as well. Allen was a colorful and bombastic editor, who made his presence known through bold headlines such as “The Great and Only Marble Hill Press!” Allen…

Genres

News

Published in

Marble Hill, 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

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