Douglas Daily International (Douglas, Ariz.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,295 issues from 1917 to 1921, published in Douglas, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
Douglas, Arizona, located along the border with Sonora, Mexico, was established in 1901 to smelter the copper ores mined in Bisbee and surrounding areas. The weekly Douglas International was the town’s first newspaper, established in February 1902, followed about a month later by its second, the weekly Douglas Dispatch. George H. Kelly was publisher of the International with George F. Meek as its first editor and manager.
In 1902, Kelly and his son William formed the Consolidated Printing and Publishing Company, which owned several Arizona newspapers, including the International, the Bisbee Daily Review, the Arizona Bulletin in Solomonville, and the Morenci-Clifton Standard, leading to a description of Kelly as “a monopolist in the newspaper business in southern Arizona” (Copper Era, January 16, 1902).
C. E. Bull, founder of the Copper Era in Clifton, started the Tombstone American in March 1903. Within a few months, he moved the paper to Douglas and partnered with Kelly to merge their two newspapers as the Daily International-American, published as an afternoon daily; the Dispatch was Douglas’ morning paper. The Kellys added the Arizona Democrat in about 1906, and their company became State Consolidated Publishing in 1907, taking ownership of the Arizona Daily Star until about 1910 when the Kellys divested of Consolidated.
In 1909, the newspaper title became Douglas Daily International, which it remained, other than a brief return to its previous title, Douglas…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Douglas, 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