Archivist reviews city's newspapers of past century [manuscript], 1935 March 1.

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Archivist reviews city's newspapers of past century [manuscript], 1935 March 1.

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Cappon's article for the Daily Progress discusses the "Central Gazette" which evolved into the Democratic "Virginia Advocate"; the short lived "Chronicle"; the rival Whig "Jeffersonian-Republican"; the Unionist "Review"; the Confederate "Daily Chronicle"; the independent "Piedmont Intelligencer"; a revived "Jeffersonian Republican"; the Readjustor "Virginia's Advocate"; "The Daily Progress"; a few short-lived rivals; and the African American "Messenger." Cappon gives editors, duration of run and political affiliations and causes promoted by the editors, ending with a plea for any old issues to be given to the University of Virginia Library.

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Cappon, Lester Jesse, 1900-1981

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Lester Jesse Cappon (1900-1981) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Jesse Cappon and Mary E. Geisinger Cappon. He studied music, earning a diploma from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in 1920, but was also interested in history and earned degrees at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at Harvard University, acquiring a Ph.D. in 1928. In 1925, Cappon went to the University of Virginia, where he worked on editions of Virginia historical publications and newspapers funded by the...