![]() ![]() Thompson, who was known as Milo Zit as a columnist for the Brigham City newspaper. March 1, 1894, found the first utterance by the Box Elder Voice, edited by A. Evidently its content wasn’t as popular as that of its competition, for a note in another Utah newspaper stated, “The Brigham City Report is dead, snuffed out.” The report was dated May 1, 1893. All in all, it was a good newspaper for the period in which it was printed. From its first edition’s columns on the dangers of bonding, it is evident that the newspaper was formed partly to fight extra taxation for water and electric systems being advocated by the Bugler. It had a six column layout, eight pages, with a top fold so that four pages were local news and the four inside were patent material. The Brigham City Report published its first edition on March 24, 1892, listing itself as an independent weekly published every Thursday. 4 Cecil Alter, Early Utah Journalism, (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1938), 44. Little is known about this paper with the exception that it was known to have a woman as the editor.J. The Herald was published in Brigham City for a portion of 1891. 3 Sarah Yates, “Newspapers come…and went…and stayed,” Box Elder Journal, (Brigham City: December 1, 1977), 10.Īlthough not all of the Bugler issues are on file, a Provo newspaper noted in April 1899, that the last issue of the paper gave notice to its removal to Ogden where it was consolidated with two other newspapers. ![]() Included were the opera house, public library, water system, electrical service, fire department, and establishment of a public high school. The Brigham Bugler was a constant advocate and uniting force for many of the community improvements that occurred within the decade of the 90s in Brigham City. He boasted a good deal through the newspaper’s columns concerning the importance and excellence of his publication and also of his own exploits, even to the point that other area newspapers made fun of him.Įditor Snow’s boasts were not unfounded. This was characteristic of Snow, who was definitely not modest and loved to use flowery language. Cecil Alter, Early Utah Journalism, (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1938), 41. This continued until November, 1891, when the patent print was replaced and the newspaper “blossomed out a clean, bring, all home print containing nearly 20 columns of local news, which is three to four times more than the ordinary weekly newspaper contains,” according to Editor Snow. This was common for small town newspapers, which purchased newsprint with pre-printed national news, serial, patent medicine adds and other material on the inside pages and local news on front and back. Snow, a son of Lorenzo Snow, as editor and manager: “This, our initial number, is the only newspaper publication which first saw the light in Brigham City.” Its early editions had eight columns and four pages, with half home print and half “patent” inside print. It wasn’t until Jthat the Brigham Bugler first appeared, announced by Mansfield L. The first newspaper in the County was the Utah Reporter published in 1869 in the “gentile” city of Corinne, and a succession of small newspapers sprang up during its boom years, sometimes mentioned events in Brigham City, particularly actions by the County Commissioners. 1 Sarah Yates, “Newspapers come…and went…and stayed,” Box Elder Journal, (Brigham City: December 1, 1977), 10. Church records, minutes books, personal journals, and articles in out-of-town newspapers make up the community records of the 1850-90 period. Brigham City’s first 40 years of existence went by without the public record provided by a newspaper. ![]()
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