The Yakima Herald (North Yakima, 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.
1,227 issues from 1889 to 1912, published in Yakima, Washington, digitised for Chronicling America.
E.M. Reed and James R. Coe founded the Yakima Herald in February 1889. Both men had owned other local newspapers prior to this joint venture and had been attracted to the Yakima area’s potential for growth. The Herald was founded during Washington’s transition from territory to state. The town of North Yakima sought to be named state capital and site of the state agricultural college. It lost both contests, but with a population of 5,000 North Yakima eventually developed into an important agricultural center.
The presence of the Northern Pacific Railroad had a strong impact on the development of the region. The residents of the old city of Yakima had refused to give the Northern Pacific land on which to build a depot, so the railroad decided to build the line several miles north of the town. In 1884-85, the railroad formed the community of North Yakima and offered to assist the residents in relocating. Many stubbornly refused, leading to the bombing of the offices of the Yakima Signal (a newspaper which preceded the Herald and which backed the move). This tension still colored the atmosphere of the town when the Herald was organized in 1889. North Yakima is today called Yakima.
The Herald went through several changes in ownership during its early history. Coe left the paper in 1892 for health reasons. Reed retired from the paper in 1893, while Coe returned as business manager and W.W. Watson became editor. In 1894, Watson left and Reed returned as editor. Reed continued…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Yakima, 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