Mexico Missouri Message (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
986 issues from 1899 to 1918, published in Mexico, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Mexico Missouri Message ran from 1899 to 1918. Published each Thursday, the Message was founded by John Beal who was the sole proprietor and publisher for its entire run. Although it began as a four-page paper, it was later expanded to eight pages.
The inaugural issue, published on November 9, 1899, states, “The MESSAGE will always be found standing up for Mexico, Audrain County and Grand Old Missouri. The paper will be Democratic in politics, sound to the core. ‘16 to 1’ [referring to the relationship between the value of silver and gold currency], an income tax, ‘anti-banknote despotism,’ and anti- imperialism are among our deepest political convictions.”
John Beal originally co-founded a newspaper called the Laddonia Enterprise which was later renamed the Laddonia Herald. He published that paper with his brother, Grant, until John decided to move to Mexico, Missouri. Grant Beal continued to publish the Laddonia paper until his death while John Beal began the Message shortly after moving to Mexico and published the paper until the United States entered World War I.
In 1918, Beal discontinued the Mexico Missouri Message, moved to Washington D.C., and took a position as an editor in the Public Printing Office. Beal was extremely proud that in all its years of publication, the Message had neither missed an issue nor changed managers or editors. The October 31, 1918 issue declared that the “editor of The Message has given nineteen of his best years toward the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mexico, 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