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Newspaper The Kanabec County Times (Mora, Mn) 1884-Current

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About The Kanabec County Times (Mora, Mn) 1884-Current

The Mora Times was the first newspaper to be published in Kanabec County, located in east-central Minnesota. Weekly publication began in Mora, the county's newly designed seat, in October 1882. It was founded and published by H.P. Robie, publisher and editor of the Rush City Post, and county auditor Stephen E. Tallman, a Civil War veteran who settled in Kanabec County in 1867. Only two issues of the Mora Times are known to remain: April 9 and April 16, 1883.

In late September 1884, conflict arose between Robie and Tallman over the ownership and management of the Mora Times. Robie ousted Tallman and handed management of the paper to local resident Swan B. Molander. Tallman joined with Lac qui Parle County newspaperman Roger W. Safford to start a rival newspaper, the Kanabec County Times, which published its first issue on October 6, 1884. The dispute between the two factions spilled onto the pages of their respective newspapers and into local politics, with candidates for local office taking sides and Molander ousting Tallman as county auditor.

At the time of its founding, the Kanabec County Times was a four-page, six-column weekly "Devoted to the Lumbering and Agricultural Interests of Kanabec County." The newspaper featured local news and business and also heavily promoted local, state, and national Republican politics. In early 1885 Tallman left the Times, leaving Safford as sole proprietor; Safford, a Democrat, changed the newspaper's political affiliation. Around this same time Safford and Molander made up their differences, and Molander folded the Mora Times, realizing the town could only support one newspaper.

The Kanabec County Times was taken over by Raleigh M. Pope upon Safford's retirement in January 1896. Pope, previously of the Little Falls Herald, resumed the Times's Republican viewpoint. In November 1904 Kanabec County auditor Henry Rines purchased the newspaper, assuming the role of publisher, with William W. Tenney, a staff member at the Times since 1896, running the paper day to day.

Rines rose to prominence in Minnesota politics over the next few decades, serving as a Minnesota state representative, speaker of the House, and state treasurer, and later founding the financial institution that became TCF Bank. Rines became more directly involved in his newspaper in the 1930s, writing regular articles on Kanabec County history. He sold the Times in 1947, having served as publisher for 43 years. As of 2024 the Kanabec County Times continued to be published weekly by Kanabec Publications, Inc.

Provided By: Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN

About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Kanabec County Times (Mora, Mn) 1884-Current

Dates of Publication

  • 1884-current

Created / Published

  • Mora, Kanabec County, Minn. : Tallman & Safford, 1884-
  • Mora, MN : Kanabec Publications

Headings

  • -  Kanabec County (Minn.)--Newspapers
  • -  Minnesota--Kanabec County
  • -  United States--Minnesota--Kanabec

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 6, 1884)-
  • -  Available on microfilm from the Minnesota Historical Society.
  • -  Vol. 140, no. 12 (March 23, 2023) (surrogate).

Medium

  • volumes

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ISSN RECORD

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn91059411

OCLC Number

  • 1754957

ISSN Number

  • 2837-8016

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Chicago citation style:

The Kanabec County Times Mora, Mn -Current. (Kanabec County, MN), Jan. 1 1884. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn91059411/.

APA citation style:

(1884, January 1) The Kanabec County Times Mora, Mn -Current. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn91059411/.

MLA citation style:

The Kanabec County Times Mora, Mn -Current. (Kanabec County, MN) 1 Jan. 1884. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn91059411/.