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Idaho Press
The Idaho Press of Nampa, Idaho is the second-oldest active
newspaper in Idaho, first printed in December 1883. In its early years, the
newspaper was often an instrument of political influence. One of the first
owners and editors was Frank Steunenberg.
Publishing history
The Caldwell Tribune
The Caldwell Tribune was founded by W. J. Cuddy in December 1883, and the newspaper originally was printed at 509 Market Avenue (Main Street) in Caldwell, Idaho. The Idaho Statesman said of the six-column weekly, "[It] presents a newsy appearance." In June 1884, Cuddy offered the Tribune for sale, and the paper sold in May 1886[5] to publisher George P. Wheeler, who sold the paper to brothers Al and Frank Steunenberg in 1887. In 1893 the Steunenbergs sold The Caldwell Tribune to R. H. Davis, former publisher of the Malad Enterprise, although Al Steunenberg continued to manage the mechanical department. C. J. Shorb became a partner at the Tribune in 1902, but the partnership was dissolved in 1903, the year in which the Tribune Printing & Publishing Co. was formed. On April 12, 1928, The Caldwell Tribune and The Caldwell News, owned by the Shorb family, merged to become the Caldwell News-Tribune. Later owners Aden Hyde and F. H. Michaelson sold the News-Tribune in 1937 to a corporation managed by J. T. LaFond, formerly of the Nampa Free Press.
Albert Jay Nock
Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870 – August 19, 1945) was an
American libertarian author, editor first of The Freeman and then The Nation,
educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th
century. He was an outspoken opponent of the New Deal, and served as a
fundamental inspiration for the modern libertarian and conservative movements,
cited as an influence by William F. Buckley Jr. He was one of the first Americans to
self-identify as "libertarian". His best-known books are Memoirs of a
Superfluous Man and Our Enemy, the State.
Life and work
Throughout his life, Nock was a deeply private man who
shared few of the details of his personal life with his working partners. He
was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Emma Sheldon Jay and Joseph
Albert Nock, who was both a steelworker and an Episcopal priest. He was raised
in Brooklyn, New York. Nock attended St.
Stephen's College (now known as Bard College) from 1884 to 1888, where he
joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
After graduation he had a brief career playing minor league
baseball, and then attended a theological seminary and was ordained as an
Episcopal priest in 1897. Nock married Agnes Grumbine in 1900 and the couple
had two children, Francis and Samuel (both of whom became college professors).
In 1909, Nock left the ministry as well as his wife and children, and became a
journalist.
In 1914, Nock joined the staff of The Nation magazine, which
at the time was more aligned with liberal capitalism. Nock was an acquaintance of the influential
politician and orator William Jennings Bryan, and in 1915 traveled to Europe on
a special assignment for Bryan, who was then Secretary of State. Nock also
maintained friendships with many of the leading proponents of the Georgist
movement.
However, while Nock was a lifelong admirer of Henry George,
he was frequently at odds with other Georgists in the left-leaning movement.
Further, Nock was influenced by the anti-collectivist writings of the German
sociologist Franz Oppenheimer, whose
most famous work, Der Staat, was published in English translation in 1915. In
his own writings, Nock would later build on Oppenheimer's claim that the
pursuit of human ends can be divided into two forms: the productive or economic
means, and the parasitic, political means.
Between 1920 and 1924, Nock was the co-editor of The
Freeman. The Freeman was initially conceived as a vehicle for the single tax
movement. It was financed by the wealthy wife of the magazine's other editor,
Francis Neilson.