Tazewell Republican (Tazewell, Va.)

• 1897–1912
• Newspaper

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793 issues from 1897 to 1912, published in Tazewell, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.

Founded in 1892, the Tazewell Republican was published weekly, on Thursdays, in a four-page format, varying from 20-by-26 to 18-by-24 inches. Annual subscriptions were offered at one dollar. Tazewell, the seat of Tazewell County, rests in the highlands between the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains, 22 miles southwest of Bluefield, West Virginia. In 1900, Tazewell and the surrounding area were home to a vibrant coal mining industry, lumber mills, and grain and cattle farms. The Ayer and Son’s American Newspaper Annual in 1894 noted that theRepublican’s circulation was 720. By 1900, it had risen to 1,300–sharp evidence that the paper’s readership stretched well beyond the town of 550. The circulation held steady until 1909, when it dropped to 1,000; by the next year it had fallen to 900.

The Tazewell Republican’s first editor, J. N. Harman, had in 1884-85 edited the Tazewell Times, a paper devoted to the “Readjuster” program to repudiate a portion of Virginia’s considerable debt and to refinance the remainder. Harman had also edited the Tazewell Index, in 1890–92. After less than a year at the helm of the Republican, Harman was replaced by W. I. Boone, also a former editor (1886–90) of the Index. Boone edited the Tazewell Republican from 1892 to 1893 and again from 1896 to 1898. C. H. Pruett took over from 1893 to 1896. William C. Pendleton purchased the paper from Boone in August 1898 and acted as editor and proprietor until 1910 when he sold it to W. G. O’Brien;…

Genres

News

Published in

Tazewell, Virginia, 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

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