Golden Valley Chronicle (Beach, Billings County, N.D.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
452 issues from 1907 to 1916, published in Beach, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The weekly Golden Valley Chronicle, established in November 1905, pre-dated both the incorporation of its hometown of Beach in Dakota Territory (later North Dakota), in 1908, and the organization of Golden Valley County in 1912. Before then, Beach had been part of Billings County, a fact that contributed a long-running series of early articles. In 1906, county residents voted down a replacement of their two- decade-old courthouse. As reported in February 1907, county commissioners moved to fund the new courthouse anyway, using emergency funds. The Golden Valley Chronicle and Billings County Republican represented the interests of voters and denounced the commissioners’ actions as illegal. The Billings County Herald of Medora, future site of the new courthouse, unsurprisingly favored its construction. According to the Chronicle‘s first editor, W. A. Young, Beach was “the largest and most progressive town in the county” and “does not now, nor will it ever depend upon a few county officials residing here to make it a town,” implying that Medora would not exist without the courthouse and county seat. Bitter letters and satirical poems on the issue ran in the Beach and Medora papers for several months.
The Brinton brothers, Job W. and Charles M., assumed control of the Golden Valley Chronicle on February 21, 1908, after a rancorous buyout battle with Young. They celebrated their purchase with a 12-page issue prefaced with the phrase “Let us all pull together for Beach and the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Beach, North Dakota, 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