Pullman Herald (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,744 issues from 1888 to 1922, published in Pullman, Washington, digitised for Chronicling America.
Thomas Neill was a lawyer and Irish immigrant whose ambition led him westward. Neill started his career as a newspaperman in Dawson, North Dakota, where he married Ada Allen. Frustrated with the pace of development in Dawson and lured by a magazine’s promotional piece, he brought his wife and his editor, J. J. Sargent, with him to the tiny town of Pullman in Washington Territory, where together they founded the Pullman Herald in 1888. Neill’s brothers-in-law Wilford, Ira, and Karl Allen, would later serve as editors.
Fire was a prevalent theme in the history of Pullman and is well-documented in the pages of this paper. In 1886 and 1887, fires decimated the city’s business district. The civic-minded Herald began a series of editorials arguing for a fire department. In the September 14, 1889, issue the editors wrote, “Moscow [Idaho] had decided to bond the city for $30,000 for water works while Pullman protects itself from fire with talk… [shall we wait] until the fiery demon sweeps us into oblivion, and then blame ourselves for our almost criminal neglect?” A third fire swept through the town in July 1890 before the citizens took action.
Despite these early setbacks, the Pullman grew steadily, and the Herald staff, especially the “fighting editor” Wilford Allen, lobbied aggressively on the town’s behalf. The newspaper co-sponsored Pullman’s first oil street lights in 1890, celebrated the town’s water resources (dubbing Pullman “The Artesian City,”), and pushed aggressively…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pullman, Washington, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Library of Congress