The Monett Times (Monett, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
664 issues from 1909 to 1922, published in Monett, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
David A. Peters, a newspaper man from Iowa, moved his wife and two daughters to Monett, Missouri, in 1898. The following year, he established a semiweekly newspaper called the Monett Times. As with many small town newspapers, the Monett Times was a family affair. Peters’s two daughters, Pearl and May, were experienced in helping their father with the newspaper press by setting type by hand. Pearl would later become one of only three women who owned and edited a daily paper in Missouri.
D. A. and Pearl Peters shared the management of the paper from 1899 until January of 1917, when D. A. Peters died suddenly. In their co-management, they changed the Times from a semiweekly to a weekly paper of four to eight pages published each Friday with a focus on local news and events. The Peters also planned and implemented improvements to the printing office. In 1914, they purchased an Intertype machine, which freed Pearl from having to handset the type for the news and for much of the advertising. Fort 22 years after her father’s death, Pearl Peters took on sole management and responsibility for the growth of the Monett Times. She and her father had planned a larger building for the newspapers in a more central location. Pearl carried out these plans, moving into the new building in 1920. She also contributed to changes in the format of the newspaper, initiating a “Home Magazine” supplement for domestic tips and advice. Another of her contributions was the weekly “Ramblings,” a column…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Monett, 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