The Evening Times (Grand Forks, N.D.)

• 1906–1914
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

2,187 issues from 1906 to 1914, published in Grand Forks, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.

On July 1, 1916, the Times-Herald Company of Grand Forks in Dakota Territory changed the title of its newspaper, the Evening Times, to the Grand Forks Herald. The Evening Times had debuted on January 1, 1906, in Grand Forks, the settlement originally known as Les Grandes Fourches, from a name given to this area by early French explorers to note the confluence of the Red and Red Lake Rivers. Several newspapers had come and gone since the town site was platted in 1875. By 1905, the Grand Forks Herald, founded by George B. Winship in 1879, was by far the most important.

Although a staunch Republican, Winship opposed the machine politics prevalent in northern Dakota Territory continuing into the early years of North Dakota statehood. He continually fought “the old gang” headed by Alexander McKenzie of Bismarck. A one-time Burleigh County sheriff, McKenzie represented the interests of the Northern Pacific Railway and was considered the “boss of North Dakota” for many years. The Evening Times was organized by a group of Grand Forks Republicans unhappy with Winship’s continued opposition to “the old gang.” The leading force behind this group was Jerimiah Dempster Bacon, a state senator and supporter of McKenzie. Perhaps attempting to exploit the Herald’s biases, the top of the mast of the first edition of the Times read, “A SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL.” The Evening Times proved to be a strong competitor, and upon retiring from the newspaper in 1911, Winship sold the Grand Forks Herald to…

Genres

News

Published in

Grand Forks, 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

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