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Search the Globe-Republican newspaper from 1889-1910 on Chronicling America. The Globe-Republican was published weekly in Dodge City
from October 23, 1889 until November 24, 1910. Always an eight-page,
six-column paper, subscribers received the Globe-Republican
every Wednesday until August 1895 when it switched to a Thursday
publishing schedule. Founder Daniel M. Frost, stated that the paper was
“devoted to chronicling the activities of the cattle ranges and
deploring the gambling rackets and the saloon murders of the frontier
town.” Far from being prudish, Frost opposed Prohibition and “championed
the Republican wet cause.” By 1893, the Globe-Republican
was the “Official Paper of the County” and boasted “a circulation more
than twice as large as any other newspaper in the county.” By 1910, over
900 copies were circulating in a city of 2,600 and a county of 7,600
inhabitants.
The history of the Globe-Republican can be traced to Christmas Day, 1877, when attorneys Daniel M. Frost and William N. Morphy founded the Ford County Globe. The paper went through several title and personnel changes before becoming the Globe-Republican in 1889. In July 1891, Walter C. Shinn, who had established the Dodge City Times in 1876, returned to Dodge City to become assistant editor for the Globe-Republican.
Frost delivered his valediction in the January 14, 1892 issue, followed
by Shinn’s relinquishment of editorial duties on February 1, 1895.
Nicholas B. Klaine, Frost’s former editorial rival at the Dodge City
Times, took over sole charge of the newspaper on June 21, 1895, stating
that the Globe-Republican “will be a clean newspaper of which no one
will be ashamed, and its columns will be free of abuse and scurrility.”
Klaine sold the newspaper and printing plant to William E. Davis and
Frank W. Tyler on June 15, 1902. In their salutatory editorial address,
the new owners proclaimed to “strive at all times to be fair and
courteous to the home people who are [of] different political faith, but
will be persistent and steadfast in standing for its own [Republican]
convictions.”
After the November 24, 1910 issue, the name officially changed to the Dodge City Globe, commonly referred to as just the Globe,
which remained in publication until 1918. Editor Jess C. Denious cited
the reason for the name change the complaints from patrons that “it was
too much trouble to write Globe-Republican when remittances were to be
made to this office.” In December 1911, a daily edition was introduced
called the Dodge City Daily Globe, which continues to publish to this day.Search the Globe-Republican newspaper from 1889-1910 on Chronicling America.