Morris Tribune (Morris, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,309 issues from 1880 to 1922, published in Morris, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Stevens County Reporter began publication on November 23, 1876, in Morris, Minnesota. Situated in west-central Minnesota, Morris had been founded in 1869 as a station site for the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. The Reporter was a politically independent four-page, seven-column newspaper issued weekly. In its first issue, editor and publisher W.H. Graves promoted Stevens County for its “rolling and well drained” and “very rich and fertile” farm land and stated that “farmers in particular will find our paper of much value to them.” In addition to local, state, national, and international news, the Stevens County Reporter included regular agricultural news and advice. The grasshopper plague that ravaged farm lands in Stevens County is discussed in the March 31, 1877 issue.
When Graves left the Reporter in 1877, Sergeant Julius Converse “Shanghai” Chandler, a Civil War veteran and “spicy” editor of several Wisconsin newspapers, became editor and publisher. In the March 10, 1877 issue, Chandler described Graves as “an awful dead-beat swindler” for “obtaining money and goods under false pretenses” from others.
In mid-1877, John F. Todd took over as editor and publisher and renamed the newspaper the Stevens County Tribune, a newspaper that was, he stated, “devoted to general news and interests of Stevens County.” The Tribune was a four-page, seven-column newspaper published weekly, covering local to international news. In 1878, William James Munro became editor and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Morris, 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