The Rathdrum Tribune (Rathdrum, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,131 issues from 1903 to 1924, published in Rathdrum, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
The small community of Rathdrum, Idaho, was established in 1861. In the 1880s a mining boom began in northern Idaho, and Rathdrum developed as a supply center for the adjacent Coeur d’Alene Mining District, also known as the Silver Valley. The development of Rathdrum was aided by the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1883 and the placement of a railhead in the town. Agriculture and lumber were also important industries, primarily in support of mining.
In 1902, two brothers, Joseph R.M. and Charles W. Culp, purchased a local paper, the Silver Blade (1895-1902), with Joseph serving as editor. The following year, the Culp brothers changed its name to the Rathdrum Tribune. The Tribune was published in 1903-63, serving Rathdrum and Kootenai County. It appeared weekly on Friday as a four-page, six-column paper, with occasional six-page issues. In 1911-20, the Tribune‘s circulation hovered around 500.
The Rathdrum Tribune faced immediate criticism from a local competitor, the Democratic Panhandle News. The Panhandle’s editor, William A. Logue, attributed the Silver Blade’s demise to political motivations and predicted the Tribune’s demise for the same reason. These charges were refuted in an editorial in the Tribune that claimed that the Silver Blade and Tribune were both free from political influence. The Tribune‘s editor went on to say that, “so far as existence is concerned, the Tribune will be on hand to record the death of the Panhandle News and, still later,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Rathdrum, 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