The Kendrick Gazette (Kendrick, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
987 issues from 1903 to 1922, published in Kendrick, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
Joseph S. Vincent first published the Kendrick Gazette in 1892, in Kendrick, Idaho, a newly established town in the northern part of the state. Vincent learned the printer’s trade in Lewiston, working for his grandfather and uncle, Alonzo and Charles F. Leland, founders of the Lewiston Teller. As the owner and editor of the Gazette, Vincent never missed an issue, though his newspaper office burned out twice–once on August 16, 1892, and again March 16, 1894. Both fires were on a Thursday, and Vincent managed to keep to his schedule of putting out a weekly publication on Fridays.
In 1900, Daniel T.A. Mackintosh took over the Gazette for nine years, keeping with the paper’s original publishing schedule and its Democratic leanings. In August 1904, another fire swept the town of Kendrick, and again the newspaper office burned, but the Gazette did not miss an issue. Immediately after the fire, the Kendrick Gazette was printed as a two-page folio on wrapping paper because of the scarcity of resources in the town. In 1909, when Mackintosh was elected as a Democratic representative in the state legislature, he sold the Gazette to George W. Hancock, who established the independent Kendrick Gazette Publishing Company. When Hancock’s tenure as owner ended in late 1911, the Farmer’s Bank and Trust Company took over responsibility for the publication for a few months. Thereafter, B.C. Johnson bought the paper and ran it successfully through March 1916. Ralph B. Knepper purchased the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Kendrick, 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