| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION prestige On November 20 1903 editor publisher Huish smilingly observed his paper was weakly enough without calling attention to the fact and simplified the name to Eureka Reporter When the Reporter was founded its advertising columns were dominated by patent medicines major source of reve nue in that day Proclaimed aspanacea for all imaginable ills they were typified by Mexican Mustang Liniment sic which claimed for 60 years it has proven the best liniment for man or beast and added it was also good for burns and scalds St Jacobs Oil bragged that it positively cures rheumatism neuralgia backache headache footache and all other bodily aches Makers of Bromo Quinine tablets averred they could curecold in one day Early issues of the Reporter demonstrated that its pub lisher didnintend to let it lack for reader interest The Tintic area offeredvariety of news ordinarily not found in smaller communities Mining mishaps frequently fatal were commonplace The bizarre life of the rough and tumble types who engaged in mining produced numerous shootings stabbings and other violent crimes which kept the Reporternews columns busy And the editoroften acid pen invoked its wrath with frequency Never though was it aimed within Eureka Instead it lashed out in defense of the town or against its critics or atpolitical foe short-lived politically motivated paper inneighboring county seat town was an early editorial target It is interest ing to read the last effort of the Record an alleged publication at Nephi penned Huish The editor states that no political organization has strings on the Record He might have went further and said that since the leaders of democracy tumbled to the fact that the illiterate paper injured the cause it organization cared for his Within two years of unintelligent spleen published in that attempted to espouse that no political support its founding the Reporter moved to new facilities prompting Huish to editorialize It is the inten 558 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
