Cavalier County Farmers Press (Langdon, 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.
70 issues from 1920 to 1921, published in Langdon, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Cavalier County Courier and the Democrat merged to form the Courier- Democrat in 1891 in Langdon, North Dakota, with Andrew Koehmstedt as editor. The Courier had been established in 1885 by Charles B.C. Doherty, and the Democrat was launched in 1888 by Andrew I. Koehmstedt, who became sole proprietor of the combined Courier- Democrat in April 1894.
Established just a few years following creation of the town of Langdon, the Courier-Democrat witnessed and reported on Cavalier County’s development from its frontier days to the early 20th century.
One noteworthy and catastrophic event reported in the newspaper was the tornado of 1909. The Courier Democrat covered the tragic event in great detail – “In the years to come the people of Langdon in all likelihood will mark Memorial Day as a date for a peculiarly local observance. The Langdon cemeteries now contain the earthly remains of five who were victims of the disaster on the eve of Memorial Day, 1909. Hereafter that national memorial day should have a double significance to people here.” Later in the same issue there is a sense of optimism of Langdon moving forward – “With the proper spirit of courage instilled we believe that before fall all the ugly scars left by Saturday afternoon’s storm will have been healed and the appearance of the town enabled to resume its wonted neat and tidy appearance.”
As the name implies, the Courier Democrat was politically Democratic and as of 1900 had a circulation of about 1,100…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Langdon, 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