Nogales Daily Herald (Nogales, Ariz.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
999 issues from 1915 to 1918, published in Nogales, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Nogales Daily Herald was established on November 6, 1914, by Miguel Arevalo and H.A. Corpe. The Herald was printed every day except Sundays, and its first slogan was “Today’s News Today” but changed to “The Paper That Goes Home” in 1916. Initially the paper was four pages with one page, “Heraldo de Nogales,” published in Spanish; that section was dropped in September 1915. In its first years, the newspaper focused on local news, with frequent editorials advocating for road improvements in Nogales and other ways to “boost” the town. It also had sports news, serialized fiction, and news from around the state, like mining strikes and politics. Nogales, Arizona shares a border with its sister city, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, and the Herald boasted: “Our circulation now extends for many miles into the interior of Mexico. Bundles of Heralds go to Magdalena, Hermosillo and Guaymas” (February 24, 1916).
During this time, the headlines were dominated with news about the Mexican Revolution. The Herald‘s reporting seemed most sympathetic to General Obregon. One editorial called for sending U.S. troops “to take the trail into Mexico…until the last Villa man is killed or captured” (March 10, 1916). A member of the Associated Press, the Herald carried much national and international news, with the war in Europe prominently featured during that time, especially as the United States entered World War I. Often headlines about these world events were simultaneously featured on the front…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Nogales, Arizona, 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