Grand Rapids Herald-Review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn) 1896-Current
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1,765 issues from 1896 to 1930, published in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Grand Rapids, Minnesota, located in the central-northern portion of the state, was founded as a lumber settlement around 1872. The town lay at the uppermost limit of practical steamboat travel on the Mississippi River, with an easy route to float timber from the surrounding pine forests down to the big city markets. Mining was another attraction for the area, thanks to its proximity to the western edge of the Mesabi Range, rich with mineral deposits. Grand Rapids was incorporated in 1891, its population having grown to almost 800 people, and it soon became the seat of Itasca County, which it remains today.
The Iron and Lumber Review was first published in Grand Rapids by Graffam & Orr sometime in 1892. Edited by H.E. Graffam, this weekly Saturday paper typically ran four pages with eight columns. As noted by its motto, "Devoted to the Interests of Itasca County," the newspaper focused its coverage on local Grand Rapids and Itasca County news, mostly lumber and mining related, but also featured condensed stories from around the country and world. One of the more notable local events captured by the Review was the "first lynching to be recorded against the record of the Mesaba iron range," of John Domeau, accused of sexual assault May 13, 1893. The paper also covered the fallout from the market crash of 1893. The Review did not begin with an official political bias, but announced in its August 19, 1893, issue that it would represent the interests of the Democratic Party to…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grand Rapids, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- 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.
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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- Library of Congress