Clarke Courier.

Berryville, Clarke County Virginia: Published & edited by John O. Crown, Volume xxi, number 34, October 10, 1889. Broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 24 inches by 34 inches folded once vertically forming four pages.

Old folds, moderately toned & foxed, tattered including small tears & losses in the margins, creasing, one-half inch split at a fold briefly affecting text, pencil annotation in the top margin, otherwise good or better.

Contents include:
Judases in Mexico
International Sunday School Lesson
Revolt in the Black Belt
Local, often illustrated advertising

Publisher & editor, John Oliver Crown was the "son of Frederick and Henrietta Thomas Crown, husband of Sarah Jane Smith Crown, 1848-1916. Served in Co. B, 35th VA Cavalry "White's Comanches," CSA during the Civil War. In 1870 he returned to Berryville, VA, and purchased The Clarke Co. Courier and was owner/editor/publisher until his death. At the time of his funeral the businesses of Berryville closed to pay homage to him. He was a writer and poet, having written an account of the operations of The Comanches during the autumn of 1862 which was used by Capt. Frank Myers in his 1870 book."
~Excerpted from Crown's obituary.