Mountain Home Republican (Mountain Home, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
431 issues from 1915 to 1926, published in Mountain Home, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Mountain Home Republican, published in 1915-46 in Mountain Home, Elmore County, Idaho, was the successor to the Elmore County Republican (1910-15) and the Republican (1903-09).
The Mountain Home Republican was originally owned by the Mountain Home Co-Operative Irrigation Company and edited by Ralph W. Simpkins. In January 1916, the Republican merged with another paper owned by the Mountain Home Co-Operative Irrigation Company, the Elmore Times (1914-15). The merger resulted in the Republican moving its publishing office to the former Times office and absorbing the Times‘s subscription list. George F. Lee replaced Simpkins as editor and business manager for the Republican in September 1916. The Mountain Home Republican was less partisan than its predecessor. According to editorials, the Republican wanted to be a booster for the Mountain Home community and inform its readers about politics, not to propagandize on behalf of one party or tell its readers how to vote. However, the Republican did cover more Republican policies and candidates for office than those of the Democratic Party.
The Republican was published weekly, originally distributed on Saturdays, and typically contained six or eight pages with six columns. In 1917-18, 10- and 12-page issues became more common. Local news coverage included all of Elmore County, but focused on the city of Mountain Home. Settlement, reclamation, and irrigation were popular topics. Increased coverage of national and international…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mountain Home, Idaho, 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