The Ordway New Era (Ordway, Colo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
918 issues from 1902 to 1922, published in Ordway, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad pushed through Ordway in eastern Colorado as early as 1887, but it wasn’t established as an official town until 1890. C.B. Stewart, formerly of the short-lived Granada Times, set up the Ordway New Era and began publication using a small printing press and hand-set type. The first, eight-page issue came out on March 14, 1902, in which Stewart promised, “When we get underway, we shall print four of the pages at home, and be able to give our readers more matter. Give us a chance and we will do all that we can to give you a first class paper.” Stewart was briefly joined by his stepson, J.W. Walters, who acted as publisher in 1904 and 1905. Stewart stayed with the New Era until 1907 when Jay F. Johnson took over the New Era and its subscription list of around 400. Stewart went to act as a Justice of the Peace in Ordway, and he later founded and published the Cheraw Clarion from 1910 to 1916, occasionally returning to the New Era throughout the years.
Johnson edited and published the New Era until 1914, when Lester Isaac and Nina B. Giffin took control of the paper. Lester Giffin had previously worked on the Grand Junction News and the Pueblo Chieftain before buying the New Era. Besides acting as the editor and publisher of the paper, Giffin served as mayor of Ordway for two terms, as well as the president of the Colorado Editorial Association in 1921, and vice president of the National Editorial Association from 1923 to 1924. The Giffins published…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ordway, 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