Little Falls Weekly Transcript (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??
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505 issues from 1894 to 1901, published in Little Falls, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
With the motto to “print the news when it’s news,” the Little Falls Transcript began weekly publication in September 1876, under the editorial direction of Henry Clay Stivers. Throughout the 1890s, the Transcript was one of four newspapers published in Little Falls, Minnesota. Along with the Little Falls Herald, the Morrison County Democrat, and for a brief period, the Little Falls Sun, the Transcript served the community of Little Falls with a wide range of local and national news. In addition to local circulation, the Transcript had a subscriber base that extended to greater Morrison County, including the towns of Pierz, Buckman, Motley, Royalton, and Swanville. The Transcript was decidedly Republican in its politics, a point of fact that regularly put the Transcript at odds with the other Little Falls papers that were staunchly Democratic.
Starting with a four-page, six-column format, Henry Clay Stivers added a daily edition, the Daily Transcript, in 1880. In 1881, Stivers leased his operation to John Frazier Pearson, who discontinued the daily edition and put his energy into the weekly paper. By 1889, ownership of the paper had passed to 27-year-old Wheaton Matthew Fuller, a native of Little Falls who had apprenticed under Stivers. It was under Fuller’s leadership that the Transcript saw its greatest period of growth.
In the spring of 1892, Fuller incorporated the Transcript Publishing Company. He was joined in this endeavor by several prominent Little Falls…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Little Falls, Minnesota, 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