Montpelier Examiner (Montpelier, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,309 issues from 1896 to 1922, published in Montpelier, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
Members of the Mormon Church from Salt Lake City settled Montpelier, Idaho, in April 1864. It existed primarily as a trading post for a number of years, and in 1892 the Oregon Short Line Railroad built a railroad terminal in the town. Charles E. Harris first published the Montpelier Examiner in 1895. He remained the primary editor and publisher for nine years, even after he sold the business to the Examiner Publishing Company in September 1902. Harris devoted the Democratic Examiner to “the up building of Montpelier and Bear Lake in particular and Idaho in general.” The 1902 Holiday Edition of the paper provided insightful information and statistics about life in Bear Lake County. It compared the 1900 Census showing the population of Montpelier to be 1,440, with the updated 1902 estimate of nearly 2,000 residents. In 1902, Bear Lake County boasted 8,000 people, compared with 7,000 in 1900. The Examiner Publishing Company expressed its wish for 1,000 subscribers by the end of 1903.
The Examiner, a weekly paper, changed the day of publication numerous times between Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. For a short spell in January and February of 1900, the paper became the Montpelier “Twice a Week” Examiner. At its origin, the paper consisted of four pages with seven columns; it grew to eight pages after ceasing the twice-a-week printing in 1900. In most issues, two or three columns were dedicated to a fictional story or installment. In the early years of the paper there…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Montpelier, 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