Valentine Democrat (Valentine, Neb.)
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616 issues from 1900 to 1912, published in Valentine, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
In its various incarnations, the Democrat served the needs of the people of Valentine and Cherry County in north-central Nebraska. Previous titles include the Democratic Blade (1885-89), the Cherry County Gazette (1889-92), and the Cherry County Independent (1892-97). The paper first took the name Valentine Democrat in 1896 under the editorship of Robert Good. On September 1, 1898, Good changed the title to the Western News-Democrat, which it kept until May 3, 1900, when Isaac M. Rice took over as editor and publisher and renamed it the Valentine Democrat. Annual subscriptions were $2.00 for the Valentine Democrat and just $1.00 for the Western News-Democrat. Rice continued as editor until 1911, and the Democrat maintained its title until 1930, when it was superseded by the Cherry County News. Editions of the Democrat typically ran four to five columns on each of its eight pages.
Hoping to forward the region’s economic prosperity, the Democrat emphasized issues important to the largely agricultural community. During his tenure as editor, Robert Good published the cattle brands of more stockmen than any other newspaper in Nebraska, often devoting two or more pages to illustrate each brand. Though the various titles’ mastheads were largely simple, their subheadings were often more informative. Through “A News, Farm and Stock Journal,” the Western News-Democrat provided tips on threshing buckwheat, cutting corn, and housekeeping and maintained a vigilant eye on livestock and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Valentine, Nebraska, 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