The Globe-Republican (Dodge City, Kan.)
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1,069 issues from 1889 to 1910, published in Dodge City, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Globe-Republican was published weekly in Dodge City from October 23, 1889 until November 24, 1910. Always an eight-page, six-column paper, subscribers received the Globe-Republican every Wednesday until August 1895 when it switched to a Thursday publishing schedule. Founder Daniel M. Frost, stated that the paper was “devoted to chronicling the activities of the cattle ranges and deploring the gambling rackets and the saloon murders of the frontier town.” Far from being prudish, Frost opposed Prohibition and “championed the Republican wet cause.” By 1893, the Globe-Republican was the “Official Paper of the County” and boasted “a circulation more than twice as large as any other newspaper in the county.” By 1910, over 900 copies were circulating in a city of 2,600 and a county of 7,600 inhabitants.
The history of the Globe-Republican can be traced to Christmas Day, 1877, when attorneys Daniel M. Frost and William N. Morphy founded the Ford County Globe. The paper went through several title and personnel changes before becoming the Globe-Republican in 1889. In July 1891, Walter C. Shinn, who had established the Dodge City Times in 1876, returned to Dodge City to become assistant editor for the Globe-Republican. Frost delivered his valediction in the January 14, 1892 issue, followed by Shinn’s relinquishment of editorial duties on February 1, 1895. Nicholas B. Klaine, Frost’s former editorial rival at the Dodge City Times, took over sole charge of the newspaper on June 21,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Dodge City, 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