The Border Vidette (Nogales, Ariz.)
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1,635 issues from 1897 to 1934, published in Nogales, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Border Vidette was a Democratic weekly that began publication in Nogales, Arizona, in 1894. It was published by the Vidette Publishing Company from 1894 to 1896 and edited by Frank M. King. In 1897, King became its publisher alongside J.R. Southworth.
Estelle Lutrell’s Newspapers and Periodicals of Arizona 1859-1911 sheds some light on the life of Frank M. King, the paper’s most famous owner and editor. Like many territorial newspapermen, King made his money in mining. While in New Mexico, he discovered the Lincoln Lucky Mine; he sold his share in 1884 and moved to Arizona. King farmed in Yuma County and received an appointment to the territorial prison in 1886. In 1897, King took over the Border Vidette, which he operated for a year before he moved to Phoenix to eventually manage the Arizona Democrat, founded by John O. Dunbar, in 1901.
Under King’s guidance, the Vidette carried columns such as “Sonora News,” “Mining News,” “Railroad News,” and “Southwestern Range.” These dealt mostly with cattle and ranching, both important pursuits of King’s, and they continued to appear on at least a semi-regular basis for the life of the Vidette.
As a border paper, the Vidette tackled many transnational issues that a town such as Nogales faced. The August 3, 1918 issue reported that World War I border restrictions were wreaking economic havoc on the Mexican and American sides of the town, causing “universal weeping among retail merchants of Nogales, Arizona, who see ‘panicky’…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Nogales, Arizona, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- 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.
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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