The Carlsbad Current (Carlsbad, N.M.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
525 issues from 1908 to 1922, published in Carlsbad, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Carlsbad Current was published weekly from June 3, 1899, through October 1, 1907, and again from November 20, 1908, through November 5, 1926. It was preceded by the Eddy Current. The article “The” was added to the title between 1903 and 1905. The Carlsbad Current merged with the New Mexico Sun on October 11, 1907, and in 1908, the Carlsbad Current and New Mexico Sun called itself “the official paper of Eddy County.” A one-year subscription to the Carlsbad Current and New Mexico Sun cost $1.50 for the weekly which was published every Friday. The title reverted to the Carlsbad Current on November 20, 1908. A daily edition, the Evening Current, was published from April 16, 1917, through December 14, 1918; the Carlsbad Current absorbed the Evening Current’s subscriber list when it ceased publication.
On November 9, 1926, the Carlsbad Current merged with the Carlsbad Argus to form the Carlsbad Current-Argus, which was still published in 2011. The Current always offered national, territorial or state, and local news and added more international coverage over time. Although significantly independent early on, the paper later became firmly Democratic, although it eventually became more non-partisan after merging with the Carlsbad Argus.
Carlsbad, which lay along the Pecos River in southeastern New Mexico, was originally known as Eddy. It had a population of 963 in 1899 when the municipality, in an effort to exploit the mineral springs in the region, changed its name to…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Carlsbad, 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