Belding Banner (Belding, Mich.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,031 issues from 1895 to 1918, published in Belding, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Belding Banner of Belding, Michigan, was a weekly paper that began publication in 1889. Embrie P. Lapham and Charles R. Cowden founded it as a Republican newspaper by. In 1904, Lapham purchased Cowden’s interest and became sole owner. Lapham sold the Banner in 1913, but remained in Belding running a job printing house in a partnership with the men who owned the city’s other newspaper, the Democratic Belding News. Lapham remained connected to the newspaper business. In 1915, he bought back the Banner from the men to whom he had sold the paper, although he now co-owned it with James M. Langston. In 1918, the Banner merged with the Belding News to form Belding Banner News, the name under which it published until 1974, when it was combined with the Greenville Daily News.
Belding was first was known as Broas Rapids (after Levi Broas, who settled the area in 1838). Later, it was called Patterson Mills and, during logging days, Hog Wallow. The name Belding was chosen in 1871 to honor the family that made the town one of America’s major silk manufacturing centers. The foundation of the silk industry was laid in 1860 with the arrival of Hiram H. and Alvah N. Belding, who had moved to the town several years before. As their business prospered and grew, the brothers expanded their silk industry operations to a total of four states and Canada, but Belding became the company’s hub. The Belding name first appeared on a mill in 1890; the firm eventually operated four mills in the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Belding, Michigan, 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