The Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
8,876 issues from 1893 to 1922, published in Ardmore, Oklahoma, digitised for Chronicling America.
Newspapers rapidly appeared throughout the five nations of Indian Territory after the 1889 land run, and the Santa Fe and MKT railways penetrated the area. Thousands of non-Indian settlers organized towns along the lines, establishing dozens of newspapers. The Daily Ardmoreite first appeared on October 28, 1893, in Ardmore, Carter County. Established by several local businessmen, the Ardmoreite was the first daily newspaper published in Indian Territory. It was just another small community newspaper in the Chickasaw Nation until Sidney Suggs purchased it in June of 1897 for $2,400. Under his direction, the Ardmoreite became the leading news provider in Indian Territory.
By 1901, Ardmore had grown to be the largest city in Indian Territory, and the Ardmoreite informed 1,077 subscribers. Suggs purchased the first Linotype machine in the territory and bought newsprint by the rail carload. The Ardmoreite was the best equipped, best paying, and most quoted newspaper in territory. Suggs’ success and pioneer spirit was recognized in 1903, when his peers elected him president of the Territorial News Press Association. By the time Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, the Ardmoreite’s circulation had reached 2,049.
Suggs used his newspaper’s increasing popularity to further his political agenda. He expressed strong opposition to separately admitting Indian Territory to the United States. He joined many Oklahoma Territory politicians in proposing that the two territories form a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ardmore, Oklahoma, 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