The Grand Rapids Weekly Eagle Itasca County’s First Newspaper Issue 2: Thursday, July 10, 1890 edited by Don Boese THE EAGLE is proud of its reception at Grand Rapids. The 2,000 copies of the first issue went off like celluloid cakes. Subscribe for the EAGLE. […]
The Grand Rapids Weekly Eagle Itasca County’s First Newspaper Issue 1: Thursday, July 3, 1890 edited by Don Boese The eagle, sui generis, (this is not Chippewa,) is the feather-covered bird of liberty that screams for equal rights, and flaps his wings on the American dollar. The Grand Rapids EAGLE, except the feathers, will have [...]
The Grand Rapids Weekly Eagle Itasca County's First Newspaper edited by Don Boese The first newspaper in Itasca County was the Grand Rapids Weekly Eagle published briefly in l890. No copies survived, or so it was thought, until during the summer of 1998. The first two issues surfaced in a collection of family materials being [...]