The Yale Expositor (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,473 issues from 1894 to 1922, published in Yale, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
The small rural Michigan community of Brockway Center–originally spelled “Centre”–is located 22 miles northwest of Port Huron and around 60 miles north of Detroit. It was located on the Pine River in Michigan’s Thumb region. Brockway Center was named for Lewis Brockway, one of the first permanent white settlers in the area.
The Brockway Centre Weekly Expositor, a Republican affiliated paper, was first issued on Thursday, May 18, 1882, with D.T. Sutton as proprietor and James A. Menzies as editor. The Expositor‘s tagline read: “A Live Paper Makes a Live Town: Independent In All Things, Neutral In Nothing.” Sutton was born in October 1858 in rural Saint Clair County. He lived for a time in Richmond and then New Haven, Michigan, before beginning his journalistic career as local and assistant editor of the Port Huron Daily Times and Weekly Times. Sutton also established the Greenback Sentinel, described as a “campaign paper.” With the election completed, he relocated to Homer, Calhoun County, to edit and publish the Homer Index, before returning to Saint Clair County to found the Richmond Review.
Menzies was born in Amhertsburg, Ontario–where the mouth of the Detroit River meets Lake Erie–in January 1860. While a child, he and his parents relocated to Michigan’s Macomb County. From the ages of 14 through 17, Menzies was educated in Detroit. After completing his education back in Amhertsburg, Menzies returned to Macomb County and worked in the office of the Armada Telegraph…
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- News
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- Yale, Michigan, United States
- Language
- English
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- Chronicling America
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