The Nenana Daily News (Nenana, Alaska)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
810 issues from 1918 to 1921, published in Nenana, Alaska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Nenana News was a four-page weekly paper that first rolled off the press on September 23, 1916. It was started by Roy Southworth. Previously the founder and editor of the Fairbanks Times, he decided to start a new newspaper shortly after leaving that paper. According to the October 10, 1916, issue of The Alaska Daily Empire, Southworth took over the Fairbanks Times plant by foreclosing on their mortgage and then used it to print his own new publication. The first issue of the Nenana News predicted that “Nenana has a bright future and the people here expect to win riches and success at a marvelous speed, we among the number.” Southworth moved the plant to Nenana and printed the second issue from it on October 14, where he boasted that it was “one of the best in the country, consisting of a linotype machine, cylinder press and everything else needed to produce an up-to-date newspaper.”
The October 14, 1916, issue of The Nenana News documented the first automobile seen in town and the November 18th issue shortly afterward heralded the completion of the town’s power plant. The paper celebrated the pace of construction in Nenana and wrote in the November 18th issue that if the harsh winter that year had not delayed construction then “Nenana today would rank among the first cities of the territory in every respect.” Southworth also pushed back against reports from a Fairbanks newspaper that the town of Nenana was full of drunks and wrote that “it would be difficult to find a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Nenana, 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