The State Herald (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.)
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1,366 issues from 1889 to 1921, published in Holyoke, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Located on the Eastern Plains of Colorado, the town of Holyoke began in 1887 as a small camp for railroad builders on the Burlington Railway system and quickly became the commercial hub for the farming and ranching districts that surrounded it. The area thrived until the 1890s, when severe drought decimated the population. By the turn of the century, however, conditions improved, and an influx of homesteaders came to Logan and Phillips counties to take up abandoned claims and file new ones.
Holyoke’s The State Herald was formerly published in La Harpe, Illinois, as The Hancock County Herald by Charles W. Painter and William N. Jordan. They had found the newspaper market of western Illinois saturated and decided to head west. As the State Herald noted, “Mr. Jordan, the junior partner, started out to find a new home and before he was half across the state of Nebraska, heard of Holyoke and its magnificent prospects; consequently he came here, and was the first newspaper man on the ground” (February 10, 1888). On September 5, 1887, Painter, with foreman R. J. Hetrick and the rest of the outfit, arrived in Holyoke, and they set up shop in a shack just southwest of the Holyoke stockyards. Painter described the first office as 14′ X 18′, with a tarpaper roof, cracks between the boards large enough for a common-sized man to walk through, and a sign in bold letters advertising “The State Herald, Republican to the Backbone.” For four weeks, the Herald published from this “printing…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Holyoke, Colorado, 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