The Idaho Republican (Blackfoot, Idaho)
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1,316 issues from 1904 to 1924, published in Blackfoot, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
On July 22, 1904, the first issue of the Idaho Republican was published in Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho. It was established by the Idaho Publishing Company, with Byrd Trego as editor, “for the purpose of giving the people of Blackfoot and the country tributary to it, a newspaper of the type and character that Idahoans of the present decade are demanding.” Although Republican in politics, it claimed to be “above petty partisanship.” Trego had been the publisher of the Mackay Telegraph, and while beginning the Republican he was still serving as one of the editors of the Telegraph.
From the first issue, the Idaho Republican consisted of eight pages with six columns. It was published every Friday morning, and in the first issue stated that the “sworn circulation” of the weekly would be 1,200. The Republican published a small article providing an overview of the town of Blackfoot, the seat of Bingham County. Situated on the Oregon Short Line Railroad, Blackfoot boasted a population of 2,000, the paper specifying that it consisted only of “white Americans.” The principal industry of the area was agriculture, with “many great canals” constructed for irrigation, tapping the Snake River near the edge of town. There were also many fruit orchards around Blackfoot, although sugar beets were the main focus.
The Idaho Republican had an ongoing rivalry with the Blackfoot Optimist, the latter established in 1907. In 1912, the Republican replaced the Optimist as the official paper of…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Blackfoot, Idaho, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
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- 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