The Harlem News (Harlem, Mont.) 1908-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,836 issues from 1908 to 1963, published in Harlem, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
Harlem, Montana sits on the state’s Hi-Line, a string of towns along the Great Northern Railway’s route between North Dakota and Idaho. Founded in 1889, the town was without a newspaper until F. N. Wilde established the Milk River Valley News in 1904. In the first issue, dated March 23, 1904, the editor acknowledged that the paper “will be strictly republican, and will represent the best interests of the grand old party.” Starting with the next issue on March 30, 1904, the masthead proclaimed the paper to be “Devoted to the great agricultural, stock, and irrigation interests of the Milk River.” The Valley News lived up to its promises, promoting homesteading, railroad growth, coal mining, and local and national partisan politics.
Following a stockholders meeting, the Milk River Valley News changed ownership, and the June 18, 1908 issue marked the start of the Harlem News with the byline “Located in the Heart of the Milk River Valley.” The new owners, Tom Everett, Charles Smith, Sr., C. H. Barton, and H. S. Turner, hired Jess Angstman as editor and updated the paper’s equipment. The editorial from the first issue also explained that the News would aim for a more neutral stance, saying that the paper “doesn’t believe it is going to be necessary to say mean things of its political opponents.” These changes and improvements, according to the editors, reflect “the improvement that has been going on in Harlem.”
In 1913, Herbert C. Anderson left the Whitefish Pilot to become…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Harlem, 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