The Kadoka Press and Kadoka Reporter (Kadoka, S.D.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
663 issues from 1910 to 1923, published in Kadoka, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Near the middle of western South Dakota, the town of Kadoka was established in 1906 when the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad extended to that point. In that same year the town’s first newspaper, the Kadoka Reporter, was founded in a dugout shelter, where the paper and supplies fell prey to mice and rabbits.
By May 1908 a second paper, The Kadoka Press, was being published by William Durkee and Edward T. Nellor. The five-column, eight-page weekly issue was printed each Friday with a $1.00 yearly subscription rate. The first issue’s front page was primarily advertising but also included a letter from a traveler sightseeing in Tacoma, Washington. The paper regularly included political items such as a column titled “The State Capital Chat,” which was dedicated to legislative bill updates, petitions, and other legislative or state issues.
Kadoka was located in a remote area with nearly twenty communities or settlements within a 45-mile radius. The town’s railroad access created a thriving retail location for incoming settlers and the Lakota people residing in the area. Advertising promoted numerous businesses: hardware, farm machinery, bakery, blacksmith, wagon and machine repair, land company, real estate, confectionery, butcher shop, general merchandise, and a harness shop, as well as banks. One notable advertisement was for a furniture company that included not only furniture repair, but an undertaking department.
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- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Kadoka, South Dakota, 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