Metropolis Weekly Gazette (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
426 issues from 1911 to 1922, published in Metropolis, Illinois, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Metropolis Weekly Gazette was published every Friday from approximately 1889 to 1938 in Metropolis, Illinois, a city located along the Ohio River in the southern part of the state. The editor and founder of the paper was Joseph B. McCrary. Miranda J. McCrary, his wife, worked as the paper’s manager. McCrary, born in Tennessee in 1858, was the son of George B. McCrary, Sr., and Harriet McCrary. Joseph served as Reverend of First Missionary Baptist Church and as an officer with Mount Olive Baptist Association of Southern Illinois. In addition to their newspaper business, the McCrary family owned a confectionary store and sold and delivered ice and coal.
The Weekly Gazette focused mostly on local and statewide news, but also included national and international news. The paper covered a variety of topics, including church activities, deaths, illnesses, crime, travel, politics, and popular science. Women’s interest articles and a humor section regularly appeared. Frequent advertisements in the paper for tourist destinations reachable by rail reflect the city of Metropolis’s role as a transportation hub between the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers and the convergence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Ads promoted “Winter Sojourns” to destinations like New Orleans, Florida, California, Panama, and Cuba.
The paper included regular coverage of the activities of prominent African-American figure Booker T. Washington. In issues from 1913 to January 1917, the paper…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Metropolis, Illinois, 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