Reporter and Farmer (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946
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1,463 issues from 1884 to 1913, published in Webster, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
James P. Webster moved to Day County, South Dakota, from Pine Island, Minnesota, in 1880 and constructed a claim shanty near a railroad grade, which the Milwaukee Railroad had plotted west from Ortonville, Minnesota. Even before the train depot could be constructed, businessmen looking to found a new town arrived in the spring of 1881, constructing a hotel and hardware store. The first post office opened on June 1, 1881, Edward Ruggles serving as postmaster. By that September the settlement, known as Webster, had attracted a newspaper man, Albert C. Tuttle from Baraboo, Wisconsin. Webster was incorporated as a village in 1885 and then incorporated as Webster City in 1895.
The Reporter and Farmer was the first newspaper published in Day County, beginning on September 15, 1881. In 1882 James C. Adams and his son William visited Webster and purchased the newspaper from Tuttle, who was left in charge until the spring of 1883, when the Adams men returned to Webster with the rest of their family to take over printing. James Adams was a veteran of the Civil War and used his position as editor to promote and record the activities of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) encampments that were held in the Webster area over the years. William Adams took a homestead and published a small newspaper he titled The Dakota Daylight out of a sod shanty in northern Day County at Giles City. The Daylight would move to Britton, South Dakota, after which William moved to join his father as a…
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