The State Chronicle (Raleigh, N.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
645 issues from 1891 to 1893, published in Raleigh, North Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
On September 15, 1883, Walter Hines Page (1855–1918) published the first issue of the The State Chronicle in Raleigh, North Carolina. The North Carolina native started his career working with the St. Joseph Gazette in Missouri and The New York World before moving back to run his own publication. The first issue of the State Chronicle promised “plain speaking editorials about living subjects, advocating honest democratic politics, industrial education, material development, money making and hearty living.” Page styled his weekly newspaper after The New York World, printing descriptive rather than dramatic headlines on the front page and constraining nearly every article to a single column. He printed on higher grade paper than most serials of the day, thereby giving the Chronicle a distinguished appearance.
In September 1885, Page debuted a second edition of the Chronicle. The Daily Chronicle published six days a week. However, the title was short-lived and ceased publication in February 1885. The daily edition’s demise roughly coincided with Page’s decision to sell the money-losing Chronicle to Josephus Daniels (1862-1948). Like Page, Daniels used the newspaper to push for economic development and improved education in North Carolina. In June 1885, Daniels merged the State Chronicle with The Farmer and Mechanic to reduce competition among the two Raleigh-based newspapers.
Although he no longer owned The State Chronicle, Page, who had returned to journalism in New York,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Raleigh, North Carolina, 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