Buckeye Valley News and Buckeye Review (Buckeye, Maricopa County, Ariz.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
788 issues from 1935 to 1950, published in Buckeye, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
Park R. Mitten started the weekly Buckeye Valley News in Buckeye, Arizona, on February 12, 1912, the same date that Arizona achieved statehood, and Mitten noted this significance in the first issue. The newspaper stated its mission was “to ‘boost’ the Valley and publish the local news of the community,” and that “politically the News will remain independent.” Its initial slogan was “Buckeye Valley, The Land of Alfalfa Seed,” recognizing the importance of agriculture in Phoenix’s West Valley.
The paper was filled with Buckeye community news and reported on surrounding communities, such as Arlington, Liberty, and Palo Verde. Local businesses advertised in its pages, selling seed sacks, canned goods, and farm equipment like haying tools and reapers. There was reporting on droughts, floods, irrigation, and a new ice factory. Columns advocated for community development, such as the need for a high school in Buckeye and for better roads between Phoenix and the West Valley.
In 1920, the News reported on the arrival of a “modern ginning plant” installed by the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company to process the large cotton crops grown in the Buckeye Valley. The company also facilitated the delivery of electric power to the valley, which had “been the dream of many of our leading citizens for years” (April 22, 1920). In early 1923, publication of the Buckeye Valley News ceased when Mitten purchased the Chandler Arizonan and moved to Chandler, southeast of Phoenix.
Otto Paulson…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Buckeye, Arizona, 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