The Herald-Advance (Milbank, S.D.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,670 issues from 1890 to 1922, published in Milbank, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
On August 23, 1879, two printers from the St. Paul (Minnesota) Daily Globe published the Grant County Herald on an old Army press at the projected location of Big Stone City in Dakota Territory. William W. Downie and William Jackson correctly gambled that the Hasting and Dakota Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad would extend westward to this site. The eight-page, five-column Grant County Herald was first published on Saturdays, then on Fridays for $2 per year. Its readership was drawn from Roberts and Grant counties in South Dakota and Big Stone and Lac Qui Parle counties in Minnesota. In 1880 Jackson sold his share of the paper to Orlando T. Jones, who brought a Washington press to the enterprise. Jones in turn sold out to Henry Neill in 1882. On March 30, 1883, the editors changed the paper’s name to the Herald. By December 9, 1887, Downie had bought out Neill and became the sole editor and proprietor. Downie moved the Herald to Milbank, South Dakota, in October 1890 after it became the county seat. That same year he bought the Advance, an eight-page, six-column, Friday paper published by The Advance Printing and Publishing Company with the motto “The Right First, Milbank and Grant County Next”. Downie combined his two papers into one: the Herald-Advance, published from April 11, 1890, until 1922, during which time he upgraded to first a Porter press and then to a Cranston press. The eight-page, six-column paper cost $1.00 per year until 1917 when…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Milbank, South Dakota, 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