Coeur D'alene Evening Press (Coeur D'alene, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
835 issues from 1907 to 1910, published in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
Joseph T. Scott published the first issue of Idaho’s weekly Coeur d’Alene Press on February 20, 1892. In his salutation, Scott stated, “The people of Kootenai County are here for a purpose: Nature has placed before them crude material for building up a prosperous and wealthy community… and the Press proposes to be one of the factors in this development.”
At its inception, the Press identified itself as an “independent Republican paper, supporting the principles of that party so long as it holds to present doctrines.” It published weekly on Saturdays, as four pages with seven columns, but by 1906 it published ten pages of content, prompting Scott to make the paper a daily on August 6, 1906. By this time, Scott described the Press as “broad gauge independent, but not neutral. The best interests of Coeur d’Alene and its citizens, regardless of party affiliations, will be advocated and supported by the daily Press.”
The Coeur d’Alene Press, published weekdays and Saturdays, ran until 1929, though on November 18, 1907, its name was changed to the Coeur d’Alene Evening Press. The latter appeared daily except Sundays. In 1929, its name reverted to the Coeur d’Alene Press. The new Press appeared daily except holidays, and continues to publish to the present.
The Coeur d’Alene Press reported on the area’s natural resources: mining, water, timber, and agriculture. In the late 19th century, Coeur d’Alene was a hub for railroad and steamboat transport, moving mining materials from…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Coeur D'Alene, 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