The Colville Examiner (Colville, Wash.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
775 issues from 1907 to 1922, published in Colville, Washington, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1907, a group of Colville Democrats formed a corporation to produce a new weekly paper. They financed the purchase of modern printing equipment and hired James Corneal Harrigan, a 29-year-old newspaperman, to serve as editor. Harrigan had learned his trade in the mining towns of Montana and had worked at such prestigious papers as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Spokane’s Spokesman Review. But enchanted by Colville, Harrigan purchased the Examiner in 1909 and continued editing it for the next forty years.
The early development of Stevens County, the state of Washington and the activities of their residents are well covered by the Colville Examiner. Kettle Falls, Marcus, Summit Valley, Greenwood, South Basin, Meyers Falls, and other small communities contributed columns regularly. The area is noteworthy for its silver mining, timber, and agricultural industries. News, history, and legends of the nearby Spokane and Colville Indian tribes were included. Reports on surveying activities on the Columbia River, anticipating the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, appeared occasionally, as did stories on bootlegging and liquor smuggling, common practices due to the community’s proximity to the Canadian border. Harrigan was a witty and self-effacing writer who commented upon local, state, and national politics from the Democratic Party perspective. He was active in many service organizations and served as president of Inland Empire Press Association.
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- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Colville, Washington, 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