Missouri Valley Times (Missouri Valley, Iowa)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,137 issues from 1899 to 1920, published in Missouri Valley, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
The town of Missouri Valley, Iowa, was established in 1867 when the Chicago & Northwestern Railway was extended through Harrison County. The following year, Daniel M. Harris started the Harrisonian, the town’s first newspaper. Harris, who left a career in law for the newspaper business, served as editor and proprietor of the paper until 1872, when he sold it to H.M. Goltry. Harris moved on to establish newspapers in Independence, Kansas; Exira, Iowa; and Atlantic, Iowa, before returning to Missouri Valley and repurchasing his former newspaper, now called the Missouri Valley Times, in 1876.
The Missouri Valley Times remained in the Harris family for many years. By 1880, Harris’ sons, Robert H. Harris and John W. Harris, joined him in the business. Shortly after Daniel Harris’ death in 1911, his grandson, Rush C. Lahman, partnered with Robert Harris’ son-in-law, Guy W. Mahoney, to purchase the paper. Lahman was the son of Daniel Harris’ daughter, Clara C. Harris, and John P. Lahman. Mahoney was married to Robert Harris’ daughter Della. Two years after they purchased the paper, Lahman bought out Mahoney’s interest to become the sole proprietor. Throughout Daniel and Robert Harris’ editorships, the Times supported the views of the Democratic Party. When Lahman took over, the paper became politically independent.
During the early 1900s, a typical issue of the Missouri Valley Times featured major world, national, or statewide stories on the front page, with an emphasis on…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Missouri Valley, Iowa, 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