The Spanish American (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
509 issues from 1905 to 1922, published in Roy, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Spanish American first appeared between 1904 and 1905 as a monthly publication in Roy, New Mexico. Back in 1901, Frank Roy and three of his brothers came to New Mexico from Canada. Roy established a post office northwest of the present town site giving it his family name. Incorporated in 1916, Roy was located in Mora County, later renamed Harding County of Mora.
The Spanish American was first published in English by The Roy Publishing Company. It had been preceded by another newspaper, the Roy Observer and Reporter, about which little is known. In 1905, the Spanish American became a weekly publication and began to include articles in Spanish as well as English. In November 1906, the Mora County Publishing Company took over the paper. Two years later, the Spanish American briefly relocated in the town of Mora. It covered local, territorial, state, regional, national, and some international news. A one-year subscription cost $1.00, a six-month subscription 50 cents, and a single copy 10 cents. Later, the price of an annual subscription increased to $2.00, while that of a single copy fell to five cents.
The Spanish American encouraged the settlement of New Mexico, which it touted as a land of sunshine and promise. The paper had several editors during its lifetime, including in 1910 one of the Roy brothers, Eugene J.H. Roy. Irvin Ogden, Sr., was the paper’s longest serving editor and publisher. On August 21, 1920, Frank L. Schultz and William G. Johnson purchased the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Roy, New Mexico, United States
- 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