The Record-Courier (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,080 issues from 1904 to 1924, published in Gardnerville, Nevada, digitised for Chronicling America.
With the decline of silver to be mined from the Comstock in the 1870’s and wagon traffic to and from California through the older settlement of Genoa, Gardnerville became the market and traffic hub of Douglas County, serving the prosperous ranching and agricultural population that had settled in the Carson Valley.
In 1879, Lawrence Gilman, who owned a hotel in Genoa, bought seven and a half acres from local cattle ranchers John and Mary Gardner. He moved his abandoned hotel to the new site of Gardnerville and opened it as the Gardnerville Hotel in 1881, shortly thereafter establishing a post office. Gardnerville slowly continued to draw business from Genoa.
One of those seeking their fortune in Douglas County’s new boom town was George I. Lamy a “Professor of Violin,” who had settled in Carson City a few years previously, giving lessons and tuning pianos. In 1898, when the town decided that it needed its own newspaper, a subscription was raised to purchase the printing press of the abandoned Reno Tribune, and Professor Lamy stepped up to manage and edit the new weekly newspaper, the Gardnerville Record, issuing its first edition on July 12, 1898.
The launch of a new newspaper was an occasion for congratulations by other newspaper editors. George Smith, editor of the rival Genoa Courier, greeted Lamy’s new enterprise: “The presses and printing material for the new Gardnerville paper arrived this week. The outfit weighs about 6 tons, and the proprietor, Prof. Lamy, has…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Gardnerville, Nevada, 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