Wide-Awake

Wide-Awake was a black-owned weekly newspaper published from 1888 to at least 1914. L. H. Harrison, who worked as a porter at the Bessemer Depot, was the editor and publisher. The paper's offices and press were located at 1811½ 3rd Avenue North. The company also solicited job printing work.

The Republican-leaning paper's name referred to the "Wide Awakes", a paramilitary youth movement that grew in tandem with Abraham Lincoln's 1860 presidential campaign. The paper's slogan, displayed on its masthead, was"Find a Way or Make One, for Marching Must be Done," paraphrasing a saying attributed to Hannibal before he crossed the Alps.