Hickory Daily Record (Hickory, N.C.) 1915-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,239 issues from 1915 to 1922, published in Hickory, North Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
On September 11, 1915, the Hickory Daily Record (NC) published its first issue. Printed and distributed every afternoon except Sunday, the Daily Record included a mix of local and state news, as well as national and international stories from the Associated Press wire service. It served residents of Catawba County in western North Carolina, the center of the state’s furniture manufacturing industry and home to several textile mills.
The Daily Record was guided by Samuel Howard Farabee (1882-1939), as editor, and Jacob Carlyle Miller (1886-1948), as manager. Farabee arrived in Hickory after working at newspapers in such North Carolina cities as Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Raleigh, where he had served as editor of the Raleigh Times. Miller was a longtime Hickory resident and the general manager of Clay Printing Company, which had done work for the local chamber of commerce and published a history of Catawba County that included biographies of every county resident who had served in the Civil War.
Farabee wrote in the debut issue that the Daily Record could “be depended on to stand for the moral and industrial interests of the community and state, its object being always to be a constructive force.” He added that the newspaper’s political stance “will be that of the editor, who has always voted the Democratic ticket but has ever tried to be fair to every party and individual.” Farabee then assured readers that politics would “play a very small part in the composition” of…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hickory, North Carolina, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- 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.
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress