The Dupuyer Acantha (Dupuyer, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
396 issues from 1894 to 1901, published in Dupuyer, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
On September 15, 1894, Marby England and a Mr. Wright published the first edition of the Dupuyer, Montana, newspaper the Acantha–the name representing a kind of thorn bush found in the Greek countryside. The first issue of the five-column, four-page weekly stated that the independent newspaper existed to promote the town of Dupuyer, derived from a French word (depouille) for bison back fat, as the seat of the newly formed Teton County. The publishers of the Acantha also made clear their choice for state capital: Helena. With an election not far off, the newspaper provided a relatively negative critique of the slate of candidates for the People’s Party or Populists. The Dupuyer Acantha ran regular syndicated columns including “Scientific Matters,” “For the Fair Sex,” and “For the Farmers.”
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Dupuyer, Montana, 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