The Coolidge Examiner (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
880 issues from 1930 to 1946, published in Coolidge, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Coolidge Examiner was first published on March 7, 1930, as a souvenir issue for the dedication of the Coolidge Dam. Ted Healy, publisher and editor, claimed it was the first newspaper published and printed in Coolidge, Arizona. Its predecessor, The Coolidge News was published by Al and Marge Wilke, starting in 1928. Healy had worked at other Arizona newspapers in Nogales and Phoenix, and in 1913, he founded the Casa Grande Bulletin with Angela Hutchinson Hammer, publisher of several Arizona newspapers and the first woman inducted to the Arizona Newspaper Association Hall of Fame. The Examiner, published weekly, prided itself on focusing on local news, and its slogan was “Circulation covers Casa Grande Valley Like a Blanket.”
Disputes over water rights, especially between white settlers and Indigenous populations, permeated the West. In his newspapers, Healy supported pumping, irrigation, and dams to promote development of the area. When Healy took over the Bulletin in 1915 after political differences with his business partner, Hutchinson Hammer, he included a slogan under his name: “[a]dvocating pumping plant irrigation for the reclamation of a great inland empire.” A significant event for the town was the construction of the controversial Coolidge Dam. Healy advocated for it, and at the dedication of the dam in 1930, he presented the first copy and special issue of the Coolidge Examiner that celebrated the new dam to President Calvin Coolidge; Charles A. Stauffer,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Coolidge, Arizona, 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