The Frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

• 1880–1963
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

4,082 issues from 1880 to 1963, published in O'Neill City, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.

Frontier (NE) was a Republican newspaper published in O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, from 1880-1965, later merging with the Holt County Independent (O’Neill, Neb. : 1897) to become the Frontier and Holt County Independent. A north-central Nebraska town, O’Neill was founded and named for John O’Neill, an Irish immigrant and U.S. Civil War veteran. The town is popularly known as “The Irish Capitol of Nebraska,” as anyone who attends the O’Neill Saint Patrick’s Day festivities knows. Among its renowned citizens was Moses Kinkaid, sponsor of the 1904 Kinkaid Land Act that allowed homesteaders to claim 640 acres of ranchland unsuitable for farming in the western part of the state.

Initially, J.M.McDough edited and published the newspaper; subsequently, editors and publishers changed frequently. Frontier first came out on Thursdays with a subscription rate of $2.00 per year. Early issues were 30″ x 41″ with each issue running 8 pages. By the 1960s, Bill Richardson served as publisher; Bruce Rehberg was editor, and subscriptions for this weekly were $3.50 a year.

Unlike many papers in Nebraska, local news appeared on the Frontier‘s front pages throughout the paper’s history. The articles often announced the people visiting the town or traveling out of town, as well as local business news. The latter ranged from “David Stannard installed an iceless fountain in his soft drink parlor and news stand” to business ads, such as “Interstate Power Co. sponsors celebration for Millionth…

Genres

News

Published in

O'Neill City, 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

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