The Brooksville Journal (Brooksville, Fla.) 192?-1959
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,574 issues from 1928 to 1959, published in Brooksville, Florida, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Brooksville Journal was a weekly newspaper published in Brooksville, Florida, from 1927 until 1959 by the Russell family through their business, the Russell Publishing Company. The family was highly influential, and the Journal both reflected and supported their power, influence, and longevity in the town.
The Russell family was established in Brooksville in 1882 by Absalom McKinney Curry Russell, son of Willis McKinney Russell, owner and editor of the Bainbridge Argus in Bibb County, Georgia. In 1902 Absolom Russell founded the Southern Argus in Brooksville. Two of his brothers founded other newspapers in Florida, the Metropolis and the Palmetto News. Two more brothers worked as newspaper printers and linotypists.
In Brooksville, Absolom’s son, Edwin R. Russell, took over the Southern Argus upon his father’s death in 1912. When a fire destroyed the Argus’s publishing plant in 1922, he purchased the Brooksville Star and merged the papers under the title the Brooksville Argus. In 1927 he launched the Brooksville Journal and in 1930 purchased the Brooksville Herald from Poynter McEvoy. After this acquisition, Russell added a note to the first page specifying that the Brooksville Journal combined the Brooksville Star, the Brooksville Argus, and the Brooksville Herald.
The newspaper business remained a family affair for the entire run of the Brooksville Journal. Edwin R. Russell edited the paper alone until 1934, when Taylor Dawson was briefly listed as associate editor.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Brooksville, Florida, 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