Union County Courier (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,447 issues from 1877 to 1913, published in Elk Point, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
On November 24, 1871, in Elk Point, South Dakota, L.B. Redpath published the first issue of the Union County Courier. He printed two issues before selling the paper to the Courier Publishing Company of Harrison H. Blair, J.M. Talcott and Charles M. Northup, who in turn sold it to Charles Franklin Mallahan. Mallahan owned and edited the Courier until January 9, 1891, then sold it to Andrew Ring. Ring was the editor until April 29, 1892, when he leased the paper to J.A. Ross, who hired Louis McClarren (also spelled McClaren) and Mallahan as editors. In June 1893, Ross sold the Courier to W.T. Buchanan. His brother joined the paper in 1896, after which “The Buchanan Brothers” was used on the masthead. Charles R. Bruce bought the Courier in April 1897 and ran it until March 1911. Between March 24, 1911, and the last issue in 1913, there were six different editors: T.S. Arnet, Clark S. Thomas, Ora J. Frazine, John E. Prout, R.W. Ellis, and R.P. Willis. The latter published an interesting letter assuring subscribers that the “previous mishandling of the Courier is at an end” ; readers “will be treated with courtesy” and “news features will be given especial attention.”
The four-page, eight-column Courier cost $2.00 per year during Mallahan’s tenure and was published on Wednesdays. Ring changed the publishing day to Friday and the price to $1.50 per year. On January 17, 1895, Buchanan increased the number of pages to eight, decreased the columns to six, and changed the publishing…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Elk Point, South Dakota, 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