The Dallas Daily Herald (Dallas, Tex.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,671 issues from 1873 to 1887, published in Dallas, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Dallas Daily Herald and the Dallas Weekly Herald originated from the Dallas Herald, the town’s first local newspaper. Founded by James Wellington Latimer and William Willis in 1849, the Herald circulated as a weekly until 1873. As railroads arrived in Dallas in the early 1870s and the population boomed, the Herald’s then owner, John W. Swindells, recognized an opportunity for expansion. In 1873, Swindells began publishing the Daily Herald and renamed the weekly edition the Dallas Weekly Herald.
Although initially claiming to be the “most widely circulated paper in North Texas,” the Herald did not truly dominate the North Texas market until the early 1880s. Published six mornings a week and sold for ten dollars per annum, the Daily Herald’s circulation peaked at 5,000 in 1884. The Saturday Weekly Herald reached 5,900 subscribers that same year. The paper, however, had a significant readership beyond its subscriber base. In 1881, the Herald’s publishers printed 60,000 copies of a September special edition, a “compendium of North Texas.” The paper changed hands several times, but P. S. Pfouts and John F. Elliott owned it from the late 1870s to 1885. In 1879, they oversaw its merger with the Dallas Daily Commercial, the Herald’s main rival.
The only paper in the region to print national and international dispatches from the Western Associated Press, the Herald also devoted significant space to local reports. Articles focused on local governmental issues, the region’s…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Dallas, Texas, 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