Idaho Semi-Weekly World (Idaho City, Idaho Territory)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,923 issues from 1875 to 1893, published in Idaho City, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1864, Isaac Bowman and Henry Street of Idaho City leased the equipment of the Boise News after hours to print a short-run Democratic campaign paper, entitled the Idaho Crisis. Encouraged by the reception of the Crisis and with the election season drawing near its close, Bowman and Street elected to purchase the equipment of the Boise News outright. On October 29, 1864, they began publication of their own weekly newspaper, the Idaho World. Like the Crisis, the World was Democratic in outlook.
The World ran as a four page, five-column weekly on Saturdays. From May 1867 to November 1868, it temporarily changed its title to the Idaho Semi-Weekly World, published on Wednesdays and Saturdays. At this time, the printing equipment consisted of “two superior and large Washington presses, a large and small Gordon’s machine press,” and “above thirty fonts.” The paper resumed once-a-week publication as the Idaho World until March 1875, when it started to run the Idaho Tri-Weekly World on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, in addition to a larger weekly edition on Fridays. This aggressive printing schedule only lasted a few months. From July 1875 to June 1908, the paper, renamed the Idaho Semi-Weekly World, was published on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Idaho World, being a Democratic paper during the Civil War, included blatantly racist content, as well as vehement attacks on Republicans or anyone with Unionist sentiments. Editor Henry Street engaged in a fiery feud with the Unionist…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Idaho City, Idaho, 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