The Alliance Herald (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,057 issues from 1902 to 1922, published in Alliance, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Alliance Herald (1902-1922) was owned and edited by Thomas J. O’Keefe, who had years of experience editing newspapers in Hemingford, Nebraska. Beginning in 1902, the slogans bordering the Alliance Herald’s masthead included the “official publication of Box Butte County” and the “largest circulation of any Alliance paper.” Both the large circulation rates and a county contract to print legal notices enhanced O’Keefe’s publication. The Herald never lost its strong focus on both agricultural and civic affairs. Promoting local patrons’ prosperity, building up business interests, and boosting the development and settlement of western Nebraska also remained goals of O’Keefe, who used the paper for civic betterment. The paper ran comparative charts of livestock and produce prices in major cities nationwide, along with stock brands to inform farmers on trends, developments, and competition. Published weekly on Fridays, the paper cost $1.50 for an annual subscription. The paper had six columns on each of its eight pages. Under O’Keefe’s direction, the Alliance Herald became one of the leading papers in northwest Nebraska.
In January 1905, O’Keefe sold the Alliance Herald’s entire operation to W.S. Raker, who had formerly edited another newspaper and also had been a postmaster and insurance agent. Raker, who lent some Republican ideals to the paper, also embraced boosterism to grow the town, while widening coverage. Key national and world events most often reported on over the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Alliance, Nebraska, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress