The Columbus Journal (Columbus, Neb.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,728 issues from 1878 to 1911, published in Columbus, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Columbus Journal , published from 1874 to1911, was the chief daily newspaper for Platte County and was also distributed in the northeast Nebraska counties of Merrick, Polk, Butler, Dodge, and Colfax. The Columbus Journal succeeded the Platte Journal (1870-74) and in 1911 merged with the Columbus Tribune to form the Columbus Tribune-Journal. In 1913, the title reverted to the Columbus Journal . During its long history, the Journal absorbed a number of newspapers, including the Columbus Times in 1904 and the Platte County Argus in 1906. The Journal featured a broad eight-column format.
The paper’s founder and chief editor from 1870 until his death in 1902 was Moses Kennedy (M.K.) Turner, a Civil War veteran who had served in Co. K, 170th Ohio. While editing the Columbus Journal, Turner also practiced law and remained active in politics, serving in the state legislature from 1880 to1881 and running unsuccessfully for the United States Congress in 1884 on a ticket endorsed by the independent Greenback and Anti-Monopoly parties. In the salutatory statements in the first issue of the Journal, Turner wrote: “We have two objects before us as publishers: First to conduct a good, independent local newspaper; second to make money thereby”. Although Turner stressed his independence from partisan ties, later contemporary accounts asserted that the Columbus Journal was an influential Republican force in the politics of Nebraska during the Gilded Age.
Turner’s obituary noted that…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Columbus, Nebraska, 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