Fort Worth Daily Gazette (Fort Worth, Tex.)
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2,313 issues from 1883 to 1890, published in Fort Worth, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.
On June 30, 1882, the Fort Worth Daily Gazette published its first issue. The rancher George B. Loving created the Gazette by combining the resources of the Fort Worth Democrat and the Texas Livestock Journal, and by renaming the Democat the Gazette. Published by Alfred Britton’s Stock Publishing Company, the Gazette inherited the editorial successes of the Democat, and from its ranks acquired two editors who would oversee the new paper, Buckley B. Paddock and Walter Malone. Today, the Gazette stands as one of the few sources of information on day-to-day events in early Fort Worth. The paper underwent numerous ownership changes until 1885 when the Democrat Publishing Company assumed ownership. The Gazette enjoyed praise from its peers and subscribers, but struggled financially until 1891, when its sister publication the Fort Worth Weekly Gazette was suspended. Thereafter, the Fort Worth Daily Gazette was succeeded by the Fort Worth Gazette.
The Fort Worth Daily Gazette reigned as the only North Texas daily west of the Trinity River. When it started in 1882, the Gazette a true daily “printed every day of the year,” enjoyed a circulation of 6,000 subscribers at an annual rate of $10, numbered eight pages each issue, and measured 15 x 22 inches. The paper’s nameplate employed hand-tooled Gothic typefaces in a distinguished, uncluttered front-page banner. In an advertisement from those first years, the Gazette publishers claimed to serve North, Central, and West Texas, and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Fort Worth, 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