The Snowflake Herald (Snowflake, Ariz.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
524 issues from 1913 to 1923, published in Snowflake, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Snowflake Herald, published by Robert C. Smith starting in 1913, covered the town of Snowflake in northeastern Arizona. Editor H.B. Thompson described the paper’s purpose as being politically independent and aiming to build up Snowflake and Navajo County. A description of Snowflake was included under the masthead: “Population of Snowflake 700. Surrounding population about 16,000. Composed of a prosperous farming and stock-growing community. Annual sunshine 90 per cent…” Above the masthead, the paper proclaimed: “Largest Circulation in Navajo County” and “A Modern Equipped Printing House.”
The Herald was published weekly, offering community news about Snowflake and surrounding towns. Snowflake had been settled by Mormon pioneers, and the newspaper regularly featured information about the Snowflake Stake Academy, which had been established by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The paper also contained agricultural news, a column on livestock and ranching, and advertisements with images of cattle brands. In 1913, the possibility of the railroad being constructed near Snowflake was front page news. Later, train schedules were printed in the paper. It also included news about elections, a literary column, baseball scores, and more.
In 1914, the Herald was involved in an editorial feud with The Holbrook News and The Winslow Mail. The Herald claimed that the county made payments to the The Holbrook News while Sidney Sapp, who had been its publisher but was now…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Snowflake, Arizona, 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