The Dalles Daily Chronicle (the Dalles, Or.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,091 issues from 1890 to 1899, published in Dalles, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
Located in northern Oregon along the Columbia River, The Dalles, a prime center for trade, commerce, and shipping, is historically known as the end of the Oregon Trail. The Dalles Daily Chronicle and its weekly counterpart, The Dalles Weekly Chronicle, were founded by a group of local stockholders on December 10, 1890, in response to a partisan battle for control of municipal water rights and in opposition to a competing newspaper, The Dalles Times-Mountaineer. John H. Cradlebaugh was the first editor of the Chronicle, followed by Hugh Gourlay in 1891 when Cradlebaugh became editor of the Hood River Glacier. DeWitt Clinton Ireland was editor for a time, but moved on to the Wasco County Sun in 1893. Other editors of the Chronicle at the turn of the century included Samuel L. Brooks, Frederick Wallace Wilson, Richard J. Gorman, Miss Rose Mitchell, and John Mitchell, with Cradlebaugh and Rose Mitchell serving more than once.
The Chronicle featured international news under major headlines on the front page, followed by national, statewide, and local items of interest and various “How To” columns. The paper also reported briefly on cultural practices, such as the “curious Indian custom” of the potlatch, “a thing so foreign to us…that we have no word or phrase to give its meaning.” Conflicting opinions on cultural and ethnic diversity abound in early issues, with use of the term “red men” followed by support for Native American citizenship and voting rights on the Umatilla…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Dalles, Oregon, 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