The Times-Herald (Burns, Harney County, Or.)
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683 issues from 1906 to 1920, published in Burns, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
The mostly female proprietors of the current Burns Times-Herald pride themselves on the fact that their “founding mother” was a gutsy pioneer who continued working through her ninth decade. Nellie R. Grace had helped her husband, David Louis Grace, start one of the Times-Herald’s predecessors, the East Oregon Herald, in 1887. On her own initiative, Nellie Grace launched another newspaper, the Harney County News, in 1894. But the Times-Herald’s full history is even more complicated, borne out of the consolidation of about half a dozen papers over several decades.
The paper’s oldest ancestor, the Harney Valley Items, was the first journal in Harney County in southeastern Oregon, established in September 1885. The first iteration of the Times-Herald appeared in Burns in 1896. Brothers Julian and Charles A. Byrd had in 1891 purchased the East Oregon Herald from the Graces, and they now merged that title with a couple of bought-out competitors, the Harney Times and the Burns Tribune, to launch the Times-Herald. Meanwhile, the Burns News had absorbed the old Harney Valley Items. The News and the Times-Herald remained competitors until 1930, when they were consolidated to form the Times-Herald that is still active as of 2010.
The wide-open, high desert country in this part of Oregon has long produced a people proud of their Old Western heritage and geographic isolation. For many decades, the motto of the Times-Herald masthead was: “Covers Harney County Like the Sagebrush.” In…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Burns, 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