The Herald-News (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1940-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
833 issues from 1940 to 1955, published in Wolf Point, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Wolf Point Herald began publication in 1913 after its founder, Charles M. Hanson, came to Wolf Point from Ray, North Dakota. Hanson ran the eight-page, six-column, weekly out of his home using a George Washington hand press before upgrading to new equipment and relocating in the aftermath of a fire. J. P. Weist took over as publisher in 1915 after Hanson became Wolf Point’s postmaster. With business growing, Weist soon hired C. L. Marshall as editor, and Marshall took over the paper in 1919, operating it for the next two decades.
The Herald focused on local agriculture, printing stories on wheat markets, livestock news, and other industry issues. The paper’s attitude on agriculture was hopeful, often predicting record harvests despite occasionally reporting on struggling businesses and other warning signs of the Great Depression. The Herald also promoted oil discoveries and development efforts in Montana and North Dakota, and it included regular columns, such as Great Northern Railroad Notes, a section dedicated to the activities of Great Northern employees and their families. As a paper with an independent viewpoint, it tended to maintain a neutral political stance in its coverage of local and national elections and developments. Although Wolf Point is one of the largest communities on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, the Herald rarely offered tribal news aside from announcements about fairs and reports about non-tribal land sales.
In 1935, Joseph Dolin, an…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wolf Point, 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