The Spokane Press (Spokane, Wash.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,793 issues from 1902 to 1910, published in Spokane, Washington, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Spokane Press was founded in 1902 by Edward Willis (E.W.) Scripps as part of his newspaper chain. Scripps, his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps, and George Putnam were partners in the venture. Scripps wrote that “the journalistic policy of the new paper…be that of advocate and special pleader of the poor classes as against the whole plutocratic and aristocratic combinations, political, economic, and social.” Scripps himself did not oversee the day-to-day operations of the paper, but the Spokane Press fulfilled its mission of serving the working classes by supporting labor issues and maintaining its price at one penny per issue. The Scripps papers also appealed to their readership through illustrations and cartoons and short, humorous articles and by championing causes such as public ownership of utilities.
The Press was published in the evening, daily except Sunday. It began as four pages in 1902 and increased to eight pages in September 1908. In 1909, a second edition was added, called The Night Pink or the Pink Baseball Extra. The main coverage area of the Spokane Press was eastern Washington, although as part of the Scripps network, it fed news items to other Scripps newspapers around the country. Its circulation was 7,729 in 1912 and 7,405 in 1922. Unlike its sister papers in western Washington (the Tacoma Times and Seattle Star), the Spokane Press did not prove profitable. Under most circumstances the paper would have closed immediately, but Scripps conceived of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Spokane, 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