The Jasper News (Jasper, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,106 issues from 1901 to 1922, published in Jasper, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Jasper News was issued on Thursdays between 1898 and 1924 in Jasper, Missouri. Starting out as a four-page paper, the Jasper News declared its politics to be best described by the phrase “The greatest good to the greatest number.” The paper covered developments in southern Missouri, including news from rural towns such as Lebanon, Sheridan, Blue, and Bethel.
On September 13, 1906, the editorship of the News passed from Lynn Monroe to Joe C. Combs. The paper continued to focus on news involving local markets and agriculture and gave detailed accounts of births, marriages, deaths, and travel. On March 7, 1907, Roland B. Griffith assumed editorship. The News’ content remained much the same under his lead. In the inaugural issue, Griffith declared, “We shall continue the policy of the former publishers of the News and not dabble in politics.” Arthur F. Drake took over on August 10, 1911, and wrote, “We have our political preferences, and they happen to be Republican, but the primary and essential object of this paper is to print the local and community news and to that end we will bend our energies regardless of politics.”
In fact, the Jasper News remained largely neutral in politics, occasionally endorsing candidates for office but without consistent allegiance to a particular party. In 1904, under Lynn Monroe, the paper had endorsed Republican Theodore Roosevelt for president, but had also supported Joseph Folk, a Democrat, for Missouri governor. In local policies,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Jasper, 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