El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,372 issues from 1910 to 1921, published in El Paso, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Seeking to capitalize on El Paso’s expected growth with the coming Southern Pacific Railroad, Barron F. Deal and James P. Baker established the Herald Publishing Company in 1881 and published the first issue of the El Paso Herald in April of that year. Alternately published as the El Paso Herald, Sunday Herald, and El Paso Daily Herald during the late 1800s, the paper ran consistently as the El Paso Herald from 1901 to 1931. The paper circulated in El Paso and surrounding communities, including Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. By 1901, the Herald News Company published the Herald each evening, except Sunday, on a 15 x 22 inch paper with a yearly subscription rate of seven dollars. By 1904 the Herald was a member of the Associated Press and by June 1906 had a circulation of 6,169. Hughes D. Slater directed the Herald from 1899 to 1929 as controlling owner and editor-in-chief. Influential in civic affairs, Slater opposed gambling, served on planning committees, and promoted positive relations with Mexico.
The Herald actively reported on civic progress and international affairs. In special sections, the newspaper covered the mining and livestock industries and routinely included a section, “The Better Half,” that catered to female readers. The Herald described the October 16, 1909 meeting of Presidents William Howard Taft and Porifirio Diaz as the “Most Eventful Diplomatic Event in the History of the Two Nations,” despite prevailing anti-Diaz sentiment in the El Paso area. During the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- El Paso, 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