The Kimball Graphic (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [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.
917 issues from 1883 to 1905, published in Kimball, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Kimball Enterprise came into existence on April 12, 1882, in the settlement of Kimball in Brule County, South Dakota, during the railroad and farming boom. Located in what was then Dakota Territory, Kimball had recently been accessed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. The town was settled largely by German, English, Norwegian, and Irish immigrants. In these early days much of the news from Kimball centered on issues surrounding immigration and homesteading. The Enterprise described itself as “. . . lively, spicy, independent, and devoted solely to the interests of Kimball and Brule Co.” It also reprinted articles from newspapers around the country, encompassing topics such as farming and household tips, and featured stories with an often moral persuasion. In fact, the Enterprise claimed to be “The only strictly moral newspaper in South Dakota,” and boasted of “. . . rapidly increasing circulation among the most intelligent class of people in Brule and the adjoining counties.”
One of the first papers to be established in Kimball, the Enterprise started as an eight-page, four-column weekly printed every Friday morning. Its original proprietors were R. W. Butler and Daniel G. Hay. After only a few months, Butler was bought out by a man named Patrick H. Ryan, who for a time became the newspaper’s editor. In July 1883, the Kimball Publishing Company purchased the Enterprise, and Daniel Warner became sole proprietor and Clate R. Tinan editor. On August 17, 1883,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Kimball, 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