The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colo.) 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.
4,300 issues from 1898 to 1914, published in Grand Junction, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Founded in 1893, the Daily Sentinel has long been the paper of record in Grand Junction, Colorado. The paper was started by I. N. Bunting, a traveling salesman from Pennsylvania, and Howard T. Lee, the former proprietor of the Salida News and the Glenwood Springs Republican. Lee was appointed the state measurer of printing in 1897, moved to Denver, and by 1899 was connected with The Denver Republican and later the Rocky Mountain News, although he often wrote special news items from Denver for the Sentinel. Bunting continued as editor and manager of the Sentinel.
Grand Junction is located in the mineral- and soil-rich western slope of Colorado. Given the region’s close ties to agriculture, the early issues of the Sentinel covered farming news, especially pertaining to the Colorado Sugar factory, which processed sugar beets grown in the area. Grand Junction also was the seat of Mesa County, making local and state politics an important feature in the Democratic-affiliated Sentinel. Under Bunting’s editorship, the paper was often used as a vehicle to editorialize against A. C. Newton, the editor of the Grand Junction News. Bunting railed against Newton’s Republican politics and business practices, saying in a March 30, 1901 editorial, “The paper, under its present management has lost prestige, leadership and whatnot. It attacks and retracts; it charges and insults; apologizes and makes itself generally ridiculous; it has about as much courage as a ‘Skye terrier before a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grand Junction, Colorado, 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