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Newspaper The Daily News (Pensacola, Fla.) 1889-190?

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About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Daily News (Pensacola, Fla.) 1889-190?

Summary

  • The Pensacola (FL) Daily News began publishing sometime in 1889. The earliest verified edition was published on March 5, 1889. The Daily News predates the Pensacola (FL) Journal [LCCN: sn87062268], which published between 1898 and 1985. The two newspapers competed for like-minded readership. The editors of the Daily News pledged to "be Democratic, conservative but yet sufficiently aggressive to give weight to [the Daily News'] remarks." The Pensacola (FL) Daily News [LCCN sn96027213] was continued in the mid-to-late 1900's by the Pensacola (FL) Evening News [LCCN sn96027212]. The exact year of this transition is uncertain as the Pensacola Evening News continued the numbering of the Daily News. The earliest verified edition of the Pensacola Evening News dates from April 6, 1908. The Pensacola Evening News was then continued, sometime between 1909 and 1924, by the Pensacola (FL) News [LCCN 88074707], again exact dates are unknown. In March 1897, the Daily News had a circulation of 1,500 and the Pensacola Journal, begun as a weekly, offered little competition at first. The Pensacola News merged operations with the Pensacola Journal in 1924, when John H. Perry, the Pensacola Journal's owner, bought the Pensacola News. John Perry, a native of Kentucky, arrived in Pensacola in 1922, purchasing the Pensacola Journal sometime shortly thereafter. For the next six decades, the Pensacola Journal continued to appear mornings and the Pensacola News evenings. Both newspapers remained extremely competitive for readership. A combined Sunday edition published as the Pensacola (FL) News Journal [LCCN sn00059018] also became available. A consolidated newspaper, also known as the Pensacola (FL) News Journal [LCCN sn87062269] continued operations beginning June 3, 1985. This daily continues to this day (ca. 2008). Pensacola, Florida is the seat of government for Escambia County (FL), the westernmost city in the westernmost county of Florida. The city sits on Pensacola Bay, connecting to the Gulf of Mexico. Since the early colonial period, Pensacola had been an important naval port and economic center. By 1889, the city was one of Florida's four largest cities. The city was first electrified in 1888, one year before the Daily News began publishing. And by 1890, one year after the Daily News began publishing, Pensacola numbered 11,750 souls, ten thousand of whom (some may actually have been visitors from out of town) attended the June 17, 1891 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Pensacola's Lee Square and would have read about the event in the Daily News that day and in the days following. In 1893, Pensacola's busier streets were paved for the first time; vitrified brick manufactured by the Tennessee Brick Company had been shipped in by rail. The big news of 1898 was the beginning of the Spanish American War. Pensacola's Gulf Coast port, like others in Florida, hosted forces bound for Cuba, among them Teddy Roosevelt who passed through Pensacola on his way to Cuba through Tampa. Throughout the first decade of the 20th century, Pensacola experienced tremendous growth. By 1900, Pensacola had grown to 17,747 citizens and it increased another thirty percent by 1910 to 22,982 citizens. During the decade, following the Spanish American War, the United States of America secured the peace it had won over the Spanish in the Caribbean through naval patrols and maneuvers based out of Pensacola. The Pensacola News Journal [LCCN sn87062269] cites the Pensacola Journal as beginning in 1897 (Cf, "History of the Pensacola News Journal" on the newspaper's blog at http://pnj.com/ External). The Pensacola Journal, its research indicates, became a daily in 1898.--E. Kesse, University of Florida Digital Library Center.

Dates of Publication

  • 1889-190?

Created / Published

  • Pensacola, Fla. : News Pub. Co.

Headings

  • -  Pensacola (Fla.)--Newspapers
  • -  Escambia County (Fla.)--Newspapers
  • -  Florida--Escambia County
  • -  Florida--Pensacola
  • -  United States--Florida--Escambia--Pensacola

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Daily (except Monday)
  • -  Began in 1889.
  • -  Archived issues are available in digital format as part of the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • -  Description based on: Mar. 5, 1889.
  • -  Latest issue consulted: Vol. 46, no. 4 (Dec. 30, 1905).
  • -  Pensacola evening news (DLC)sn 96027212 (OCoLC)34304901

Medium

  • volumes

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn96027213

OCLC Number

  • 33669261

ISSN Number

  • 1946-6137

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Chicago citation style:

The Daily News Pensacola, Fla. -190?. (Pensacola, FL), Jan. 1 1889. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn96027213/.

APA citation style:

(1889, January 1) The Daily News Pensacola, Fla. -190?. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn96027213/.

MLA citation style:

The Daily News Pensacola, Fla. -190?. (Pensacola, FL) 1 Jan. 1889. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn96027213/.