The Chronicle=news (Trinidad, Colo.) 1898-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
681 issues from 1912 to 1915, published in Trinidad, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Located in southern Colorado, Trinidad was settled as early as 1859. Felipa Baca and a dozen families from New Mexico moved to Trinidad as an area favorable to agriculture and ranching. Baca built a lumber mill, donated the land for a town site, and helped organize the Trinidad Town Company. The town of Trinidad was officially incorporated in 1876, and two years later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached town. While farming and stock raising were profitable, they were replaced by coal mining as the main industry.
In 1898, The Chronicle-News was created from the merging of the Trinidad Chronicle and the Trinidad Weekly News under the leadership of Daniel W. Stone. The inaugural issue of the Chronicle-News appealed to the people of Trinidad and Las Animas County to look upon the new paper as “one of its public organs and at all times feel a perfect freedom and liberty in suggesting…anything that is for the public welfare of the community.” The Republican leanings of the paper were aligned with that of Stone, who was active in Republican politics at the county and state level. He was also the clerk of the Las Animas County district court and postmaster in 1901 and 1906.
In 1911, Stone sold the Chronicle-News to Judge Jesse G. Northcutt, who was publisher of the paper until 1927. A.R. Brown served as the first editor under Northcutt until 1913, followed by Fred Windsor who was editor from 1913 to 1937 (and again from 1938 to 1957). Under Northcutt and Windsor,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Trinidad, 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