The Daily Progressive-Miner (Ketchikan, Alaska)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,078 issues from 1915 to 1919, published in Ketchikan, Alaska, digitised for Chronicling America.
Jeffrey Rivard created the Daily Progressive-Miner when he combined his weekly Ketchikan Progressive, which he started in October 1914, with the Ketchikan Morning Mail, and the Ketchikan Miner, in September 1915. In addition to the Daily Progressive-Miner, Rivard published a separate weekly called the Progressive. In Bent Pins to Chains, Evangeline Atwood and Lew Williams, Jr., write that the linotype operator of the Daily Progressive-Miner died during the Spanish Flu outbreak and was not replaced, making it a one-man operation. Rivard sold the paper in 1919 to a group of businessmen who ran the Ketchikan Alaska Pioneer, and combined the papers to create the Ketchikan Times on May 1, 1919.
Rivard held, and shared, strong opinions, taking stands against Prohibition as well as women smoking. Rivard wrote that until Alaska was able to levy or collect taxes it needed the money from alcohol licenses. Atwood and Williams wrote that Rivard despised the sight of women smoking and he went so far as to say “just because women are wearing pants is no sign they should have the gall to smoke a pill in public.”
However, Rivard’s most controversial stance was that Alaska should be split into four separate geographical divisions along the Federal court district lines to allow Southeastern Alaska to apply for statehood on its own. Rivard explained in an editorial on October 23, 1915, that “just so long as Alaska shall remain a whole for government purposes, just so long shall we be…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ketchikan, 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