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Newspaper The Gazette and Land Bulletin (Waycross ; Brunswick, Ga. ; Tampa, Fla.) 1896-19??

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About The Gazette and Land Bulletin (Waycross ; Brunswick, Ga. ; Tampa, Fla.) 1896-19??

J. M. Milton initially founded the weekly Gazette and Land Bulletin in Waycross as the Southern Baptist after he bought out a shuttered newspaper in nearby Blackshear, Georgia in 1896. The paper ran under that title for three years until it temporarily folded in 1899 and was briefly absorbed by a Savannah publication, the Baptist Truth. After a couple months, Milton relaunched his paper as the Gazette and Land Bulletin, but he also referred to it as the Waycross Gazette. Milton issued the paper simultaneously in Waycross and Brunswick, Georgia, and Tampa, Florida.

Under Milton’s leadership, the paper staunchly supported the Republican Party, particularly Black leaders such as Henry A. Rucker and Judson W. Lyons. On January 27, 1900, he also wrote approvingly of Booker T. Washington and advocated for a philosophy of racial uplift: “No people ever rise to a higher standard in the scale of civilization than their leaders; therefore … all intelligent people place in front to lead, the most able, worthy, and in short the best men and women …” Additionally, through its featured religious columns and reprinted Sunday school lessons, the Gazette and Land Bulletin carried an explicitly Chrisitan bent.

Tragedy struck in August 1900 when a fire burned down the Gazette and Land Bulletin office overnight. Insurance covered only part of the losses. In October, Milton announced a move to Savannah, where the paper took the name of the Savannah Gazette. However, recovery proved difficult. In May 1901, the Chatham County sheriff seized and auctioned the assets of the paper for unpaid debt. Despite a legal attempt to regain control of the paper, H.A. Hagler and Tom W. Bryan took it over and changed the name to the Southern Gazette.

Hagler was an experienced editor. In 1892, he edited a Populist newspaper in Atlanta, the People’s Advocate. One editorial he wrote denouncing Jefferson Davis and allegedly impugning Southern women so provoked white Georgians that a lynch mob formed. Hagler survived, but he faced a criminal libel charge presumably arising from this incident and was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred and fifty dollars or labor for six months on the chain gang. By 1896, Hagler had joined the Republican fold, but he remained a provocateur in the years that followed. The Gazette continued under Hagler’s editorship for several years before ceasing publication by 1906.

Note: A portion of the issues digitized for this newspaper were microfilmed as part of the Miscellaneous Negro newspapers microfilm collection, a 12 reel collection containing issues of African American newspapers published in the U.S. throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Creation of the microfilm project was sponsored by the Committee on Negro Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1947. For more information on the microfilm collection, see: Negro Newspapers on Microfilm, a Selected List (Library of Congress), published in 1953. While this collection contains selections from more than 150 U.S. newspapers titles, for further coverage, view a complete list of all digitized African American titles available in the Chronicling America collection.

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About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Gazette and Land Bulletin (Waycross ; Brunswick, Ga. ; Tampa, Fla.) 1896-19??

Dates of Publication

  • 1896-19??

Created / Published

  • Waycross ; Brunswick, Ga. ; Tampa, Fla. : Gazette Pub. Co., [1896]-

Headings

  • -  African American newspapers--Georgia
  • -  African American newspapers--Florida
  • -  African Americans--Georgia--Newspapers
  • -  African Americans--Florida--Newspapers
  • -  Waycross (Ga.)--Newspapers
  • -  Ware County (Ga.)--Newspapers
  • -  Brunswick (Ga.)--Newspapers
  • -  Glynn County (Ga.)--Newspapers
  • -  Tampa (Fla.)--Newspapers
  • -  Hillsborough County (Fla.)--Newspapers
  • -  African American newspapers
  • -  African Americans
  • -  Florida
  • -  Florida--Hillsborough County
  • -  Florida--Tampa
  • -  Georgia
  • -  Georgia--Brunswick
  • -  Georgia--Glynn County
  • -  Georgia--Ware County
  • -  Georgia--Waycross
  • -  United States--Georgia--Ware--Waycross
  • -  United States--Georgia--Glynn--Brunswick
  • -  United States--Florida--Hillsborough--Tampa

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Began in 1896.
  • -  Microfilmed by the Library of Congress for the Committee on Negro Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies.
  • -  Archived issues are available in digital format from the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • -  Description based on: Vol. 3 (Jan. 27, 1900).

Medium

  • volumes

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn83016194

OCLC Number

  • 9617038

ISSN Number

  • 2833-6704

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Chicago citation style:

The Gazette and Land Bulletin Waycross ; Brunswick, Ga. ; Tampa, Fla. -19??. (Waycross, GA), Jan. 1 1896. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/sn83016194/.

APA citation style:

(1896, January 1) The Gazette and Land Bulletin Waycross ; Brunswick, Ga. ; Tampa, Fla. -19??. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/sn83016194/.

MLA citation style:

The Gazette and Land Bulletin Waycross ; Brunswick, Ga. ; Tampa, Fla. -19??. (Waycross, GA) 1 Jan. 1896. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, aj.sunback.homes/item/sn83016194/.