Potosi Journal (Potosi, Mo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,473 issues from 1894 to 1922, published in Potosi, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
Frank Melcher Deggendorf began the Potosi [Missouri] Journal on August 22, 1894, after returning to Potosi from working as a printer in St. Louis. He had previously worked in the editorial office of the Weekly Independent, a Democratic paper in Potosi. Upon returning to Potosi, Deggendorf married and quickly set to publishing a four-page Republican newspaper each Wednesday. Deggendorf’s enthusiasm for his newest endeavor was apparent in the inaugural issue when he states: “we propose to devote space in our paper and do all in our power for the advancement of all the resources and enterprises in Washington County, the home of our adoption, and to this end we invite the co-operation, assistance and good will of all our citizens.” Deggendorf also coined a new motto: “The Journal is the Paper for the People.”
Deggendorf’s pride in his editorial work is evident in the fact that he rarely, if ever, missed publishing the paper. In 1914, his 20-year anniversary edition mentions that the Potosi Journal “has appeared regularly without a single miss, always under the same ownership.” At that time, Deggendorf had overseen the publication of 1,040 issues and had written articles or editorials for all but perhaps half a dozen of these. By then, the enthusiasm of Deggendorf, now middle-aged and a widower, seemed dampened by experience and personal loss, as his editorials become darker and more jaded. Despite never having missed an issue, Deggendorf wrote: “whatever we have failed in…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Potosi, 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