The Churchill County Standard (Fallon, Nev.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
641 issues from 1908 to 1920, published in Fallon, Nevada, digitised for Chronicling America.
The future site of Fallon, Nevada was a rest stop on the California Trail. Its open land eventually attracted Michael Fallon who established a cattle ranch there in the early 1890s. In 1896, Fallon established a post office on his ranch, giving the future town a name. In 1901, Fallon sold the ranch to Warren Williams, the state senator from Churchill County. The next year, Williams introduced a bill in the state senate to move the county seat from Stillwater to Fallon. The bill passed and Senator Williams donated a lot for a new courthouse. The construction of the courthouse set off a building boom in Fallon. The construction of the irrigation canals brought hundreds of laborers into the region and filled the newly saloon-festooned streets of Fallon.
Among the people flocking to Fallon were a trio of newspaper journalists: Bert Hansen from the Tonopah Bonanza, Fred Fairbanks from the Yerington Times, and Leslie Smaill, a young reporter from Carson City whose resume included newspapers in San Francisco, Tonopah, and Reno. The first issue of the Churchill Standard was issued on December 19, 1903 under the aegis of the Standard Publishing Company. The Tonopah Bonanza saluted the new paper and their former colleague, “The Churchill Standard, a five-column paper, published at Fallon, Churchill county, is upon our table. It is a newsy and neat paper and the BONANZA hopes the good people of Churchill County will give the Standard liberal financial support.”
Hansen and Fairbanks…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Fallon, Nevada, 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