The Miller Press (Miller, S.D.) 190?-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
845 issues from 1906 to 1924, published in Miller, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
In June 1881, Henry Miller came to Hand County, Dakota Territory, to establish a claim on a forty-acre tract of land lying a few miles west of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad siding #4 at St. Lawrence. As the railroad moved west, the roadmaster located the side-track and depot along the southern edge of Miller’s property. The railroad named the site Miller after the first settler.
Two of Miller’s sons, William H. Miller and Eudell J. Miller, as proprietors and publishers, issued the first edition of the Hand County Press for an annual $2.00 subscription cost. The weekly paper was first published Wednesday, January 4, 1882, using a seven-column by four-page layout. On November 20, 1882, George C. Seward and W. H. Kephart became the new owners of the paper.
The town of Miller was a large commercial center where new settlers and existing residents could purchase all the goods needed to establish and maintain their residences and acreages. Advertisements in the Hand County Press listed a variety of businesses: farming implements, photography, millinery, lumber yard, contractor, bakery, meat market, boot maker, drug store, livery, jeweler, hardware, physician, painter, lawyer, restaurants, furniture, and banks.
By March 28, 1883, W. H. Kephart bought out George Seward’s interest in the paper, and on April 24, 1883, John A. Bushfield became Kephart’s partner. The paper changed to an eight-column, four-page edition and continued the weekly Wednesday publication schedule…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Miller, South 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
- 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