Evening Capital News (Boise, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
974 issues from 1912 to 1920, published in Boise, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Evening Capital News, a daily paper published every afternoon and Sunday morning, was a cornerstone of life in Boise, Idaho, from 1899 to 1927. Six days a week, the masthead read Evening Capital News, while on Sundays it was the Sunday Capital News. The journal began as a modest four-page publication and grew with the city. By 1920, Boise’s population had reached 30,000, and the Capital News had increased to 12 pages. The Capital News also succeeded in expanding its circulation to other states including Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, and New Jersey.
Richard Story Sheridan was the general manager of the paper for 19 years, beginning in 1901. He broadened the paper from six to seven columns, adding pages to the evening publication and expanding the Sunday Capital News to 28 pages. The Sunday edition included a magazine section dedicated to various household, fashion, and scientific topics as well as comics and church news. The Capital News covered local events, mixed with state, regional, and global news. As with most Idaho newspapers, it included many stories on water, irrigation and canals, lumber and sawmills, mining, and railroads. It reported on the Great War, particularly a national food crisis and its effects in Idaho, which rationed food, endorsing two porkless days in addition to the standard meatless and wheatless days put in place by the U.S. Food Administration. Other noteworthy developments during these years included Prohibition,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Boise, 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