The Lehi Banner (Lehi, Utah)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
737 issues from 1891 to 1914, published in Lehi, Utah, digitised for Chronicling America.
When the Lehi Banner first appeared on May 29, 1891, Lehi, Utah, boasted a population of just over 1,750 people. A farming town about thirty miles south of Salt Lake City, Lehi was founded in 1850 and named for a patriarchal figure from the Book of Mormon. Lehi grew slowly in the decades between its founding and the appearance of its first newspaper, the Banner. Residents of the town produced wheat, oats, barley, and alfalfa and raised cattle and sheep. Lehi was a stop along the route of the Pony Express, but it was the establishment of a sugar plant in 1890 that really sparked the town’s growth.
The Lehi Banner was launched as the official newspaper of the new sugar factory, which was owned by the Utah Sugar Company and financed by the Latter Day Saints Church. As the factory, which had cost $400,000 to build and had a 350-ton capacity, transformed Lehi from a sleepy farming town into the center of beet sugar production in the Intermountain West, the Banner was there to cover the development. Although the weekly never reached more than 550 subscribers and rarely exceeded four printed pages, the Banner attracted advertisers and readers alike with its format of local news, world events, and beet sugar industry analysis. The edition of June 12, 1891, included a front-page account of recent “beet sugar experimentation” along with a story about open-air theatrical productions in New York City.
Local items typically trumped national news in the Banner. Every week, the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lehi, Utah, 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