Plentywood Herald (Plentywood, 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.
574 issues from 1927 to 1937, published in Plentywood, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Plentywood Herald was first published in Plentywood, Montana on October 28, 1908 by Cornelius Nelson and his wife, Anna. Headlines in the first issue included “Fine Free Homesteads,” “Complete List of National, State, and County Candidates,” and “Important Facts From Round the World.” The paper was successful enough to allow the construction of a new building on Main Street in 1911. Cornelius was a staunch promotor for Plentywood. In a 1913 editorial on competing with rival candidate Culbertson for the position of county seat, he wrote, “With undaunted nerve she [Culbertson] tries to persuade the people of Orville and Scobey to do her homage as of old by traveling 120 miles to get to the county seat, but the sturdy farmers of the north will win this fight for Plentywood, just as their forefathers in the north of Europe returned in triumph with their spears and helmets bedecked with garlands of victory won on land and sea.”
Many Montana newspapers had bitter rivalries and feuds with other papers, but none quite like the relationship between the Plentywood Herald and the Producers News. The Producers News, also a Plentywood paper, was an avowedly Communist publication. In contrast, the Herald‘s politics ranged from neutral to conservative. This led to many arguments between the papers and their readers. As a Plentywood resident wrote in Plentywood Portrait, a community history, “If the Producers News had said, ‘Tomorrow the sun will rise!’, those persons who were…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Plentywood, 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