The Oakes Times (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
880 issues from 1906 to 1922, published in Oakes, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Oakes is a Northern Pacific Railroad (NPRR) townsite that was founded in 1886 and named for Thomas Fletcher Oakes, then General Manager of the NPRR, and its President from 1888-1893.
The first newspaper in the area began in 1883 as the Port Emma Times. The Jim River Journal sold its list to the Port Emma Times in 1885, and the Times moved to Ludden during its boom in 1886 and took on the name the Ludden Times. In 1890, the owners of the Times, C.S. Brown and W.H. Ellis, moved to Oakes, where the Oakes Weekly Republican was born. Ellis and Brown sold their interest in the Republican in 1898 to Ed A. Smith. Smith dropped “weekly” from the title at this time.
Around 1900, Republican editor Ed Smith declared, “The citizens of Oakes are noted for their liberality. They have always spent their money freely whether it was to get a railroad, promote a county fair, coursing meet, horse races or a sugar beet factory. And, as a result Oakes is the best advertised city of its size in the state. The balance of the state may poke a little fun at Oakes for spending a little money on a sugar beet deal, but it would be better grace to give us credit for trying to develop the state at our own expense.”
In 1901, the Oakes Republican purchased the Oakes Independent, and in 1902 the paper was sold to F.S. Goddard and Alex R. Wright, then owners of the Ellendale Leader. In 1903, that partnership dissolved, Goddard taking the Leader and Wright the Oakes Republican. Mr. Wright ran the paper…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Oakes, North Dakota, 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