The Laredo Times (Laredo, Tex.) 192?-1982

• 1935–1941
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

2,164 issues from 1935 to 1941, published in Laredo, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.

In 1881, Major J. S. Penn founded what would become the longest running news publication in Laredo history, the Laredo Times. The first issue was published on June 14, 1881, in the Farrell Building at the corner of Flores and Main Streets in Laredo, Texas. The paper ran as a seven-column, four-page weekly on Wednesday mornings. Over the course of its life, the Laredo Times would undergo numerous title and ownership changes. By the end of its first year, the paper reported a circulation of 700.

In the run-up to the state and congressional election of 1883, Penn added a daily, the Daily Laredo Times to provide support for Democratic candidates. The Daily Laredo Times was published every day except Sunday and would outlive the initial motivation for its founding to become a permanent component of the Times' catalog.

By 1888, the title of the weekly was changed to the Laredo Weekly Times. In 1897, Penn took a step back from the paper, ceding temporary control to his son J.S "Justo" Penn, Jr. Justo maintained control of the paper following Penn's death in 1901.

In 1906, the "Latest News by Wire" was added to the front page, and in 1911 J.W. Falvella was hired as city editor. Falvella occupied a central role at the paper until his retirement in 1950.

The title of the daily changed again in the early 1920s to Laredo Times. In 1926, Wyoming publisher J.E. Hanway joined oil magnate O.W. Killam and William Prescott Allen to purchase the Laredo Times. That same year, the title of…

Genres

News

Published in

Laredo, Texas, United States

Collection

Chronicling America

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None stated by the archive

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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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