Rogue River Courier (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
997 issues from 1913 to 1918, published in Grants Pass, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
Prominent newspaperman Jacob H. Stine established the Grant’s Pass Courier on April 3, 1885, in Grants Pass, Oregon. Stine’s “Independent Paper Devoted to the Interests of Josephine County and Southern Oregon” started as a seven-column, four-page weekly priced at $2.50 for a year’s subscription.
Management of the Courier changed hands six times between 1885 and 1890. In 1886, Stine sold out to William J. Wimer, who changed the name of the paper to the Rogue River Courier. In 1887, Wimer turned the Courier over to Alfred A. Allworth, who then sold the paper to Editor Frank T. Sheppard in 1888. The operation was quickly handed over to Editor George H. Currey before Jerry Nunan took over in 1890, running the Courier for seven years before selling his interests to Calvin “Champ” Price and Amos E. Voorhies. A veteran of the newspaper industry, Voorhies had worked for the weekly Greenville Independent in his Michigan hometown before moving to Grants Pass, where he earned the nickname “Boss” while working for the Oregon Observer. In 1899, Voorhies assumed full ownership of the Courier when Price sold his interests in the paper, thinking that the enterprise was not large enough to support both men’s families.
Early issues of the Courier offered a blend of national and local news, folk tales, excerpts of classic novels, and musings on medical advice. The Courier lauded the benefits of a railroad service in Josephine County, encouraged local and regional economic investment with…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grants Pass, Oregon, 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