Hot Springs Weekly Star (Hot Springs, S.D.)

• 1892–1917
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

1,194 issues from 1892 to 1917, published in Hot Springs, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.

Based in the town of Hot Springs, Dakota Territory (i.e., South Dakota), the Hot Springs Star was originally a weekly paper published every Friday and consisting of eight, six-column pages. The Star first appeared on May 21, 1886. On April 29, 1892 it was renamed the Hot Springs Weekly Star; on November 16, 1917, it returned to the original Hot Springs Star.

The Star had a tangled web of ownership for many years. The first publishers were W. T. LaFleiche and Dr. A. S. Stewart. In 1887, William H. Stanley, Jr., acquired the paper; in 1888, he turned it over to N. C. Nash. Fred T. Evans also had a financial interest in the Star. Other owners, part-owners, and publishers until World War I included: W. E. Benedict, I. L. Hanford, John A. Stanley, James B. Hedge, George I. and W. A. Warner, and A. T. Johnson.

Each publisher changed the paper to fit his style but always kept in mind the fact its main readers the residents of the Black Hills region. From the beginning, the Hot Springs Star focused mainly on the news from that part of South Dakota as well as providing important state, national, and world news.

A prominent story that appeared in the Star in 1909 was the murder of Stephen D. and Anna E. Tucker by their son-in-law James Albert Barton at their farm near Provo, South Dakota. This story is a prime example of inconsistencies in reporting resulting from the absence of quick, reliable communication. As a weekly paper, the Hot Springs Star had time to compile multiple…

Genres

News

Published in

Hot Springs, 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

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Archive

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