The Camas Hot Springs Exchange (Camas, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,121 issues from 1938 to 1959, published in Camas, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1926, Edna Gannaway began printing the Camas Hot Springs Exchange out of her home on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Camas, Montana. On June 30, 1938, her son Harry Billings and daughter-in-law, Gretchen Garber, took over the editorial and management needs of the Exchange, the self-proclaimed official Sanders County paper. Billings’ first opinion column described his editorial policy as “one of constructive criticism with as few disparaging statements about individuals as the codes of public decency will permit.” He also assured readers that the paper would attempt to understand and present opposite points of view, and he consistently took a neutral stance unless he believed someone committed an injustice, such as in the January 29, 1942 editorial when he exclaimed that people were using “patriotism as a shield for intolerant statements they make.”
The Camas Hot Springs Exchange ran syndicated articles, including national and international news, society notes, fiction serials, Montana News Inserts, and comics. It focused on local news, giving the most attention to business, schools, agriculture, women’s clubs, and the comings and goings of communities in the region, such as Lonepine, Camas Prairie, Thompson Falls, Plains, and Cottonwood. Billings and Garber saw the paper through the New Deal, the Indian Reorganization Act, and beginning of European conflicts that led to WWII, leaving the paper on August 27, 1942, after Harry announced his employment with a Kodiak,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Camas, Montana, 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