The Meridian Times (Meridian, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
687 issues from 1909 to 1922, published in Meridian, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
John F. Baird bought the Meridian Tribune in Meridian, Idaho, from Dr. Samuel Reynolds in May 1909. Reynolds had been publishing the Tribune in Meridian since 1903, when the town was first incorporated. Baird changed the name of the paper to the Meridian Times with his second issue, and dropped the subscription price to one dollar, with the goal to “make the price so low that no one in the vicinity will have an excuse to do without his home paper.”
The Meridian Times contained sections of school district news, church happenings, and Oregon Short Line Railroad timetables. While dedicating most of the column space to Meridian news and society notes, the Times also contained news of nearby Boise and other Ada County and neighboring Canyon County towns of Nampa, Caldwell, and Star.
Meridian developed as an agricultural community, and many issues of the Times included one or more pages devoted completely to crop and stock raising news, tips, developments, and discussions. Advertisements by local businesses such as banks, hardware stores, and lumber companies, were targeted to the farming community. On multiple occasions, Meridian played host to meetings of farmers from all around Ada County. In February 1922, the Times published an interesting clip, “The growing of head lettuce is a new industry which bids fair to become a permanent and lucrative one and the farm bureau has arranged for a campaign in Ada County with meetings to be held this week in Meridian.”
John F. Baird…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Meridian, Idaho, 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