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Brigham City\u2019s first 40 years of existence went by without the public record provided by a newspaper. Church records, minutes books, personal journals, and articles in out-of-town newspapers make up the community records of the 1850-90 period.1<\/a><\/sup>Sarah Yates, “Newspapers come…and went…and stayed,” Box Elder Journal<\/em>, (Brigham City: December 1, 1977), 10.<\/span>\n

The first newspaper in the County was the Utah Reporter<\/em><\/strong> published in 1869 in the \u201cgentile\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until June 14, 1890 that the Brigham Bugler<\/em><\/strong> first appeared, announced by Mansfield L. Snow, a son of Lorenzo Snow<\/a>, as editor and manager: \u201cThis, our initial number, is the only newspaper publication which first saw the light in Brigham City.\u201d Its early editions had eight columns and four pages, with half home print and half \u201cpatent\u201d inside print. 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.<\/p>\n

This continued until November, 1891, when the patent print was replaced and the newspaper \u201cblossomed 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,\u201d according to Editor Snow.2<\/a><\/sup>J. Cecil Alter, Early Utah Journalism<\/em>, (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1938), 41. <\/span>\n

This was characteristic of Snow, who was definitely not modest and loved to use flowery language. He boasted a good deal through the newspaper\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Editor Snow\u2019s boasts were not unfounded. 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. Included were the opera house, public library, water system, electrical service, fire department, and establishment of a public high school.3<\/a><\/sup>Sarah Yates, “Newspapers come…and went…and stayed,” Box Elder Journal<\/em>, (Brigham City: December 1, 1977), 10.<\/span><\/blockquote>\n

Although not all of the Bugler<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

The Herald<\/em><\/strong> was published in Brigham City for a portion of 1891. Little is known about this paper with the exception that it was known to have a woman as the editor.J. 4<\/a><\/sup>Cecil Alter, Early Utah Journalism<\/em>, (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1938), 44.<\/span>\n

The Brigham City Report<\/em><\/strong> published its first edition on March 24, 1892, listing itself as an independent weekly published every Thursday. J. P. Jacobsen is listed as editor and A. N. Rosenbaum as manager. 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. From its first edition\u2019s 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<\/em>. All in all, it was a good newspaper for the period in which it was printed. Evidently its content wasn\u2019t as popular as that of its competition, for a note in another Utah newspaper stated, \u201cThe Brigham City Report is dead, snuffed out.\u201d The report was dated May 1, 1893.5<\/a><\/sup>ibid., 44.<\/span>\n

March 1, 1894, found the first utterance by the Box Elder Voice<\/em><\/strong>, edited by A. B. Thompson, who was known as Milo Zit as a columnist for the Brigham City newspaper. This newspaper is noted by J. Cecil Alter of \u201cEarly Utah Journalism\u201d as a really fine newspaper. The one copy found in the LDS church library is dated June 21, 1894, and has four pages with six columns each, a two-page insert, and 12 columns of advertisement.<\/p>\n

This newspaper could not take over the business of the Bugler<\/em> either, which announced on April 20, 1895. \u201cThe Brigham City Voice last week closed its lips without a murmur, gave up the ghost and joined the innumerable caravan.\u201d6<\/a><\/sup>Ibid., 44.<\/span>\n

The Box Elder County News<\/em><\/strong> was begun by J. R. Hunter, editor and publisher, in April 1894. Edith B. Hunter became associate editor on Sept 12, 1896. In 1898 the Hunters were succeeded by Charles Pasco and Hyrum Standing, who dropped the county from the newspaper\u2019s masthead, as it became the Box Elder News<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

S. C. Wixom<\/a>, who began newspapering as a printer\u2019s assistant for the Bugler<\/em> in 1890, bought out Pasco\u2019s interest in 1900 and Standing sold to S. Norman Lee in 1904. This newspaper continued its existence as a separate entity until 1938, when it became a \u201ctwin newspaper\u201d to the weekly Box Elder Journal<\/em>. In the 1980s the two newspapers merged to become the weekly Box Elder News Journal<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Brigham City Newspapers Dates and Names<\/h2>\n

Brigham City Bugler<\/strong> <\/a>(Brigham City, Utah) 1890 – 1895<\/p>\n

The Box Elder News<\/strong>
\nThe Brigham City report (Brigham City, Utah) 1892-1893
\nThe Box Elder report (Brigham City, Utah) 1901-1908
\nThe Box Elder news (Brigham City, Utah) 1900-1938\u00a0<\/a>
\nThe Box Elder journal (Brigham City, Utah) 1909-1930
\nThe Daily Box Elder journal (Brigham City, Utah) 1930-1938
\nSaturday morning advertiser (Brigham City, Utah) 1938-1938
\nThe News-journal (Brigham City, Utah) 1938-1942
\nBox Elder news-journal (Brigham City, Utah) 1942-1949
\nBox Elder news (Brigham City, Utah) 1949-1986
\nBox Elder journal (Brigham City, Utah) 1949-1986
\nBox Elder news journal (Brigham City, Utah) 1986-current<\/p>\n

Corinne Daily Reporter<\/strong>
\nThe Corinne Daily Reporter (Corinne) 1871 – 1873
\nThe Corinne Daily Journal (Corinne) 1871 – 1871
\nThe Utah daily reporter. (Corinne, U.T. Utah) 1869-18??
\nThe Utah reporter. (Corinne, U.T. Utah) 1869-1871
\nThe Utah semi-weekly reporter. (Corinne, U.T. Utah) 1869-1869
\nCorinne daily mail. (Corinne, Utah) 1874-1875
\nSome issues of Corinne Daily Reporter\/Journal are available online\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Leader<\/strong>
\nThe Tremont times. (Tremonton, Utah) 1904-1914
\nBear River Valley leader. (Tremonton, Utah) 1914-1949
\nThe Leader. (Tremonton, Utah) 1949-1957
\nThe Leader, the Garland times. (Tremonton, Utah) 1957-1983
\nThe Leader. (Tremonton, Utah) 1983-current
\nTo our knowledge, there are not historic issues of the Leader available anywhere online. If you have access to them, and would like to help us make them available to the public, (or know of an existing online source) please contact us.<\/p>\n

Garland Globe \/ Times<\/strong>
\nThe Garland (City) Globe (1906 – 1925)
\nSome issues 1906-1919 are available online\u00a0<\/a>
\nSome issues 1917-1919 http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn86091396\/issues\/
\nhttp:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85058179\/ 1906 – 1919
\nThe Garland times. (Garland, Utah) 1928-1956<\/p>\n

News of Brigham City and Box Elder County can also often be found in newspapers of larger cities, such as Ogden and Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n

Notes<\/h2>\n

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