The Laurens Advertiser (Laurens, S.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,787 issues from 1885 to 1927, published in Laurens, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The weekly Laurens Advertiser (1885-1973) served the citizens of Laurens County, located in the Piedmont region of South Carolina, during an era of economic transformation. In the late nineteenth century, textile manufacturing became a major industry. Cotton fields gave way to mill villages. The early twentieth century saw the establishment of major companies (Laurens Glass and Palmetto Bank), schools (Presbyterian College of South Carolina), and charitable organizations (Thornwell Orphanage and State Training School for the Feeble-Minded–now the Whitten Center, both located in Clinton). The Laurens Advertiser championed the county’s growth, acting as an agent for change as well as a news source.
John Conway Garlington established the Laurens Advertiser on August 5, 1885. Local wisdom has it that the Advertiser grew out of a newssheet published by Samuel Garlington, John’s brother, but this story has never been substantiated. In 1890, John Garlington sold the Advertiser to William Watts Ball for $1,500 and later went on to found the Spartanburg Daily Herald. Ball edited and managed the Advertiser on an off-and-on basis for a number of years before becoming editor of the Charleston News and Courier. His father, Beaufort Watts Ball, and sister, Sarah Ball Copeland, also served as editors of the Advertiser; his brother-in-law, Mason Langston Copeland, managed the paper. In 1910, owner and publisher Samuel Elmore Boney sold the Advertiser to Arthur and Alison Lee. After the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Laurens, South 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