The Kanabec County Times (Mora, MN) 1884-Current
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2,367 issues from 1884 to 1930, published in Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Mora Times was the first newspaper to be published in Kanabec County, located in east-central Minnesota. Weekly publication began in Mora, the county's newly designed seat, in October 1882. It was founded and published by H.P. Robie, publisher and editor of the Rush City Post, and county auditor Stephen E. Tallman, a Civil War veteran who settled in Kanabec County in 1867. Only two issues of the Mora Times are known to remain: April 9 and April 16, 1883.
In late September 1884, conflict arose between Robie and Tallman over the ownership and management of the Mora Times. Robie ousted Tallman and handed management of the paper to local resident Swan B. Molander. Tallman joined with Lac qui Parle County newspaperman Roger W. Safford to start a rival newspaper, the Kanabec County Times, which published its first issue on October 6, 1884. The dispute between the two factions spilled onto the pages of their respective newspapers and into local politics, with candidates for local office taking sides and Molander ousting Tallman as county auditor.
At the time of its founding, the Kanabec County Times was a four-page, six-column weekly "Devoted to the Lumbering and Agricultural Interests of Kanabec County." The newspaper featured local news and business and also heavily promoted local, state, and national Republican politics. In early 1885 Tallman left the Times, leaving Safford as sole proprietor; Safford, a Democrat, changed the newspaper's political affiliation. Around this…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Minnesota, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Archive
- Library of Congress