The Brookings Register (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,010 issues from 1903 to 1923, published in Brookings, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Brookings Register is one of the few continuously published newspapers in South Dakota. The first issues were printed under the Brookings County Sentinel masthead, beginning March 30, 1882. The paper was published weekly on Thursdays in an eight-column, four-page layout for an annual subscription of $1.50. Its printing office was located in Brookings, Dakota Territory, under the ownership of George Breed and Charles D. A. Wright. By March 1883, the Sentinel moved its weekly publication day to Friday.
As an introduction to the new paper, the Sentinel editors greeted readers by saying, “In this the first issue of the Brookings County Sentinel, we wish to extend to all upright citizens, and we believe such inhabit our county, the hand of mutual friendship. We are here to represent the whole county of Brookings, from all parts of which we wish to establish a regular correspondence.” The Sentinel’s first issue included market reports and a mortuary report featuring the death of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, along with articles on beer drinking and gerrymandering and a “News in Brief” column. Advertisements were for various businesses in Brookings and the nearby towns of Aurora and Elkton. Ads were listed for the following: stables, barbers, implements, meat markets, photographers, jewelers, harness shops, banks, dry goods, painters, physicians, insurance, lumber, boot makers, and hardware.
W. E. Whiting and H. A. Whiting became the Sentinel owners/editors/publishers in May…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Brookings, 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