The Citizen-Republican (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
926 issues from 1903 to 1921, published in Parkston, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The newspaper that would later become the Citizen-Republican began publication in Bon Homme, South Dakota, on September 30, 1876, under the leadership of Andrew J. Cogan with the title Bon Homme County Democrat. In 1878, Cogan changed the name of the newspaper to the Dakota Citizen, which moved to Scotland, Bon Homme County, the following year. General Charles T. Campbell–one of the founding citizens of Scotland–had persuaded Alexander Mitchell–then president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad–to run the rail line through Scotland in 1879.
In 1882, Cogan sold the Dakota Citizen to J. E. Ziebach and F. M. Ziebach. With the railroad came a period of significant economic development which lasted from 1881 to 1891. At one point Scotland was even said to have “the largest flax market in the United States and the biggest tow mill in the world” (Herbert T. Hoover, Carol Goss Hoover, and Elizabeth Simmons, Bon Homme County History by Residents of the County, 1994). Over the next decade, still under the Ziebachs’ control, the paper changed its name to the Scotland Weekly Citizen and later the Scotland Citizen. In 1894, the Ziebachs sold the Scotland Citizen to Porter A. Bliss, who named it the Citizen-Republican. By this time, the paper had become a six-column, eight-page weekly published on Thursdays, with a Republican political affiliation.
The Citizen-Republican covered typical topics of the times such as South Dakota’s economic growth, making claims such as, “For…
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- News
- Published in
- Parkston, South Dakota, United States
- Language
- English
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- Chronicling America
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- None stated by the archive
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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