The Daily Tribune (Florence, Colo.) 1903-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,844 issues from 1903 to 1909, published in Florence, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Florence, Colorado is located in Fremont County, situated on the ancestral lands of the Southern Ute tribe. The discovery of oil in Florence in the late 1860s brought rapid growth to the town, which became the first oil center west of the Mississippi. It was officially incorporated as a town in 1887.
Herbert W. Burdett established the Daily Herald on October 3, 1896. It was edited by B.F.N. MacRorie. Owing to legal complications, the name was changed to the Florence Daily Tribune in 1898. Former Herald editor MacRorie published the first issue of the Tribune on March 2, 1898, and it was, at the time, the only daily paper in Florence. MacRorie noted in the first issue his intentions to publish “a bright newsy and impartial paper, giving all the local news available, all the latest telegraphic news, and from time to time running a serial story.” Two weeks later, MacRorie gave up editing the paper, but retained his financial interest in the Tribune‘s publication company.
In September 1898, E.F. Brown and J.F. Greenawalt, both from Three Oaks, Michigan, moved to Florence and purchased the plant, business, and name of the Florence Daily Tribune. Brown was formerly the proprietor and editor of the Three Oaks Press and would serve as the business manager and mechanical head of the Florence Daily Tribune. Greenawalt took over the editorial department, and, according to Burdett, was an “experienced stenographer and [would] be able to report council meetings and police court rows…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Florence, 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