Douglas Island News (Douglas City, Alaska)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,173 issues from 1898 to 1921, published in Douglas, Alaska, digitised for Chronicling America.
Published on a weekly basis from November 23, 1898, until July 1, 1921, and edited by A. G. McBride, Charles A. Hopp, and E. J. “Stroller” White, the Douglas Island News dealt primarily with local news items rather than wire stories. McBride and son-in-law Hopp had started the paper as the Fort Wrangel News on June 8, 1898, running it through October 23rd of that year before moving to Douglas Island.
Politically oriented as a Republican paper, the Douglas Island News moved operations to Juneau and changed its title to the Stroller’s Weekly and Douglas Island News beginning with the July 9, 1921 issue. By this time the Treadwell gold mine on the island had been closed since 1917, and its readership had moved to Juneau. White’s talent for writing is evident in his column “The Stroller,” as well as “Bedtime Stories for Juneau Children” and “Heart-to-Heart Talks with Mothers.” White ceased all columns by the end of 1929 due to his advanced age and declining health; he died in 1930.
By November 24, 1931, the paper’s title changed to the Stroller’s Weekly, edited by H. B. Selby and E. S. Stevens; that name lasted until March 3, 1933. Subsequent titles included the Alaska Press from 1933 to 1935, the Alaska Daily Press from 1935 to 1941, and the Alaska Press from 1942 to 1947, ending with the Alaska Sunday Press, which ran from 1947 to 1951.
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Douglas, Alaska, 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