The Wichita Daily Eagle (Wichita, Kan.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
4,455 issues from 1890 to 1904, published in Wichita, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Subscribers received the first issue of the Wichita Daily Eagle on March 18, 1890. The paper was published daily, except Mondays, until June 9, 1906, and asserted a Republican affiliation. The successor to a number of similarly named newspapers under the same proprietorship, the Wichita Daily Eagle by 1890 boasted a circulation of nearly 10,000 in a county with almost 45,000 inhabitants. By 1906, the Eagle’s readership doubled to 20,000, as the population in Sedgwick County surpassed 51,000. The growth and prosperity of Wichita was linked to that of the Eagle.
During its 16-year tenure, the Wichita Daily Eagle covered the arrival of Carry A. Nation and her hatchet in Kansas and the activities of the temperance movement. The Eagle also reported on the success of the railroads, including the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe among others, and the rise of Populism. The prominent Kansas Populist (or People’s) Party leader, Mary Elizabeth Lease, was often the target of derogatory comments, and critiques of her outward appearance appeared in many Republican newspapers, including the Eagle. The Eagle also frequently included news from Oklahoma, whose state line lay only 50 miles from Wichita.
The Wichita Daily Eagle was a collaborative effort between Marshall M. Murdock and his younger brother Roland P. Murdock. The elder Murdock had first established the weekly Wichita City Eagle in 1872. In the years that followed, the paper was called the Daily Eagle, the Wichita Daily Eagle, and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wichita, Kansas, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress