The Grangeville Globe (Grangeville, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
752 issues from 1907 to 1922, published in Grangeville, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
George A. Smith first published the Grangeville Globe December 4, 1907. The north Idaho newspaper was published weekly on Wednesdays and consisted of six pages with five columns. In January 1909, after a year of ownership, Smith sold the paper to Charles A. Branscomb, who expanded it to eight pages and, at the end of 1909, changed the publication day to Thursdays.
At this time, there were two other newspapers published in Grangeville–the Standard-News and the Idaho County Free Press. The Globe was a Republican publication, as was the Standard-News. These two papers consolidated in April 1910, when the Globe bought the Standard-News. A notice in the Globe stated, “There is not and never has been any justification for two Republican papers in Grangeville.” Nonetheless, for 15 months after the consolidation, the Globe printed “Successor to the Standard-News” on its editorial page.
The Globe worked for the development of Grangeville and spread word of the “beauty and healthfulness” of the surroundings. It highlighted the “matchless fertility” of the Camas Prairie, the “vast mineral and timber wealth” of the region, and the area’s “pleasant winters and delightful summers.”
The Globe included news of all Idaho County, including the nearby towns of Mt. Idaho, Fenn, Stites, Denver, White Bird, and Elk City. In 1908, the North Pacific Railway extended its reach to Grangeville. Before that date, the citizens of Grangeville had to travel by stage coach to Stites, the nearest…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grangeville, 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