The Oakley Herald (Oakley, Idaho)
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778 issues from 1910 to 1924, published in Oakley, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
The town of Oakley, Idaho, is located in Cassia County near the border with Utah. Originally, Oakley was sparsely settled by cattlemen and sheep herders. Large-scale settlement began when Mormons from Utah began to populate the area in the 1880s and 1890s. Farming, mining, and stock raising were Oakley’s prominent industries.
The Oakley Star was a weekly newspaper published by A.L. Davidson from 1893 until 1896. In 1896, Dan P. Albee and William A. Davidson purchased the Star and changed its name to the Oakley Sun. The Sun was edited by Albee and published weekly by Oakley Publishing Company.
In 1901, the Sun was purchased by A.S. Abbot, the former editor of another Cassia County newspaper, the Busy Bee. Abbot changed the paper’s name to the Oakley Eagle. The Eagle was originally published as a weekly four-page paper on Wednesdays and had a circulation of 400. In 1904, William A. Davidson acquired the paper. Charles P. Diehl, former publisher of the Twin Fall Times, purchased the Eagle in 1905. Diehl published the weekly four-page, six-column paper on Thursdays. In October 1905, Albert Marion Merrill, a Mormon school teacher, became editor. Although the Eagle‘s circulation had increased to 650 by that time, Merrill ceased operations in 1906 due to the paper’s unprofitability.
Alva A. Tanner, a poet, phrenologist, and Mormon apostate, bought the Eagle from Merrillin 1907. The following year, Tanner changed the paper’s name to the Oakley Herald. The Herald published…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Oakley, 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