Hyder Weekly Herald (Hyder, Alaska)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
536 issues from 1924 to 1934, published in Hyder, Alaska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Hyder Alaska Miner was started on October 24, 1919, by W. R. Hull. The Miner was a four-page weekly that urged people to “boost for Hyder all the time.” Hull called Hyder the “Fastest Growing Town in the North” and told his readers to send their copies to their friends after they were done with it. True to its name, the Hyder Alaska Miner primarily reported on local news in Hyder and developments at the various mines nearby.
Hull argued strongly for improved fire protections for Hyder, particularly in the wake of a small fire in 1921 that destroyed several buildings. Sanitation and cleanliness were also constant drumbeats in his editorials, and Hull was a strong promoter of clean up week. He argued that the best advertisement for Hyder would be a town that was “cleaned-up, painted-up, and planted-up.”
Echoing the racist “Yellow Peril” fearmongering of the time, Hull cheered a decision by the neighboring town of Stewart “debarring Orientals from entry into their section of the district” in the February 13, 1920 issue. Hull called it “an act which it would be well for the citizens of Hyder to emulate.” He advocated for Hyder to adopt a similar policy, writing that “The Miner … is suggesting that if any more representatives of the Yellow Peril land here they be shown the way to climb back up the gang plank.”
Hull suffered from ongoing health problems and several issues were shortened or skipped until he suspended the publication on March 26, 1923. The plant was leased…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hyder, Alaska, 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