The Superior Times (Superior, Wis.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,974 issues from 1870 to 1910, published in Superior, Wisconsin, digitised for Chronicling America.
Superior, Wisconsin has been home to Native American inhabitants since prehistoric times. Early inhabitants mined copper, but it was Superior’s location on the Great Lakes that attracted fur traders in the 18th century. The Bois Brule-St. Croix River Portage Trail created a link between Lake Superior and the Mississippi, allowing traders to move goods south to the Gulf of Mexico.
Superior was incorporated as a city on September 6, 1854, and, shortly after, became the seat of Douglas County. Eastern investors were eager to fund a railroad stretching from Lake Superior to the Pacific coast, but it would not be until the 1880s that the Northern Pacific Railway would successfully establishing that line. During the late 19th century, agriculture and industry in the region boomed. Despite the economic slowdown following the Panic of 1893, Superior continued to attract settlers from the East and European immigrants well into the 1920s.
The first issue of the Superior Times appeared on September 8, 1870. The paper was printed by Superior Times Printing and was issued weekly on Saturday, although it was sometimes published on Thursday or Friday. Circulation grew from 275 in the late 1870s to over 500 at the paper’s peak. The cost of a subscription was $2.50 per year, later dropping to $2.00, and finally to $1.00. Throughout its time of publication, an issue was four pages in length.
The Times remained in operation until 1912. During its 42-year run, the position of editor changed…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Superior, Wisconsin, 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