The Bowbells Tribune (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
967 issues from 1899 to 1922, published in Bowbells, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Bowbells is a Soo Line Railroad townsite that was founded in 1896. Railroad officials named it for the bow bells at the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow in London, England. Bowbells was named the county seat when Burke County organized in 1910. The county was named for the governor at the time, John Burke.
In 1899, Thomas B. Hurley arrived in Bowbells with a printing press and established a printing shop on the west side of Main Street. The first issue of the Bowbells Tribune was published Friday, November 18, 1899, with a subscription rate of $1.50 per year. The building occupied by Hurley was one of the many buildings destroyed by a big fire in early 1907. On February 28, 1907, Mr. Hurley purchased another lot and erected a brick building that housed the Tribune until 1969.
In the April 6, 1906 edition, the Bowbells Tribune claimed to be “the oldest paper of Bowbells and the official paper of the people of the city of Bowbells.” They also claimed to be equipped with one of the best printing plants in the west.
The Tribune changed hands November 11, 1910, and was taken over by the Tribune Printing Company. Thomas B. Hurley, Charles R. Hurley and Ben A. Stefonowicz, each owned one-third interest in the plant and business. Stefonowicz took over as managing editor. It was at that time that the Tribune stated that it had an undisputed circulation 200 percent larger than any other newspaper published in Burke County.
The Tribune was sold in 1920 to a group of farmers who…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bowbells, 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