Osage County Volksblatt (Westphalia, Mo.)
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791 issues from 1899 to 1917, published in Westphalia, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Osage County Volksblatt wasprinted in Westphalia, Missouri, from 1896 to 1917. Managed by Henry Castrop, the four-page German-language newspaper was published every Thursday conveying local and county news, including information for the local farmers. Henry Castrop, or Captain Castrop, was one of the most widely known steamboat pilots in central Missouri. His name was synonymous with boating and river news in this section of the state for nearly half a century. Castrop began his river career at the age of 15 with flat-boating on the Osage River. He received his Pilot’s license in 1884 at the age of 21. By 1896, he was captain of the steamboat Frederick on the Osage River, and in 1898 he became part-owner of the Osage and Missouri River Packet Company. Castrop navigated the Osage River from the mouth of the Missouri River at Bonnot’s Mill in Osage County to Linn Creek in Camden County. Castrop published the Volksblatt while continuing his riverboat career. Besides being a steamboat captain and newspaper editor and publisher, Castrop served from 1916 to 1920 as a clerk to Senator Sam B. Cook in the Missouri legislature.
The University Missourian, published in Columbia, Missouri, included an article about the Volksblatt and its readers in its May 11, 1910 issue:
Although, the people of Westphalia, MO. have been in America for seventy-five years and can speak English, their love of their native tongue supports a German newspaper, the Osage County Volksblatt. Henry…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Westphalia, Missouri, United States
- Language
- German
- 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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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress