The Ypsilanti Daily Press (Ypsilanti, Mich.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,727 issues from 1940 to 1946, published in Ypsilanti, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
Ypsilanti, Michigan has a long history of local newspapers. The first newspaper published in the community appeared in 1837.
The Ypsilanti Daily Press traces its history to the Ypsilanti Evening Press, which began publication in 1904. The paper was politically independent and was owned and managed by Frank T. Codrington, who had worked previously for the Detroit Free Press. Codrington was quickly succeeded as editor by several individuals.
In 1908 the then editor, William B. Hatch, and his wife Eunice Lambie (daughter of a wealthy lumber baron) purchased the Ypsilanti Evening Press and another local newspaper, the Ypsilantian, and continued them as separate publications. Hatch was fond of writing lengthy, and by most accounts boring, editorials about temperance and law enforcement but quickly tired of the long hours required of a daily newspaper editor. Hoping to winter in Florida, Hatch hired George C. Handy to run things for what was intended only to be a few months. Hatch never returned to grind of daily newspaper work.
Handy was, at that time, a recent graduate of what is today Eastern Michigan University, which is located in Ypsilanti. In 1906, while a student at Eastern, he had worked as the circulation manager of the paper. After graduating, Handy briefly ran a newspaper in Indiana, but he returned to the area to attend medical school at the nearby University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Handy would manage the Ypsilanti paper until his death in 1958, becoming its…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ypsilanti, Michigan, 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