The Wahpeton Times (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,258 issues from 1884 to 1919, published in Wahpeton, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
A duo of short-lived weekly papers published on both sides of the Red River eventually coalesced in 1879 into the Wahpeton (North Dakota)Times. A. de Lacy Wood, an itinerant Minnesota newspaperman started the Red River Free Press in Breckinridge, Minnesota, in 1879. Kentucky native George P. Garred purchased the Free Press in 1880 and published it until 1884 when it became known variously as Wahpeton Times or simply theTimes until May 21, 1885, when the Wahpeton Times moniker was formally adopted.
There was no shortage of news to cover in Richland County’s first organized town. Wahpeton also supported the Dakota Globe, Globe-Gazette, Mercury, North Dakota Globe, Richland County Gazette, and Wahpeton Globe. In 1886, Garred purchased an advertisement in Horace B. Crandall’s A History of Richland County, suggesting that while the Times could not brag of the high circulation of the Mercury or the official county paper status of the Richland County Gazette, it was a “newspaper of broad-gauge and upright principles, reserving its right to criticize and not desert a friend.” In fact, the Wahpeton Times frequently published letters to the editor or news items casting aspersions on both the circulation statistics and veracity of items published in the Mercury, or the “Murky” as it was called. In 1891, Garred took a stand against reaping advertisement revenue from spurious patent medicine manufacturers and focused on local advertisements instead. Things would later look up for the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wahpeton, North Dakota, 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