- Permanent Link:
- https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00075893/01043
Material Information
- Title:
- The daily news
- Uniform Title:
- Daily news (Pensacola, Fla.)
- Place of Publication:
- Pensacola Fla
- Publisher:
- The News Pub. Co.
- Creation Date:
- February 6, 1900
- Frequency:
- Daily (except Monday)
daily normalized irregular
- Language:
- English
Subjects
- Subjects / Keywords:
- Newspapers -- Pensacola (Fla.) ( lcsh )
Newspapers -- Escambia County (Fla.) ( lcsh )
- Genre:
- newspaper ( marcgt )
newspaper ( sobekcm )
- Spatial Coverage:
- United States -- Florida -- Escambia -- Pensacola
- Coordinates:
- 30.433333 x -87.2
Notes
- Abstract:
- Pensacola is the seat of government for the westernmost city in the westernmost (Escambia) county of Florida. Since the colonial period, Pensacola has been an important naval port and economic center. By 1889, it was one of Florida’s four largest cities, with a population exceeding ten thousand. The Pensacola Daily News began publication in 1889. The editors pledged to "be Democratic, conservative but yet sufficiently aggressive to give weight to [the Daily News’] remarks." By March 1897, the Daily News had increased its circulation to 1,500. The Pensacola Journal, begun as a weekly, remained its main competitor.
Among the bigger stories the Daily News covered was the 1891 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Lee Square and the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Pensacola’s Gulf Coast port, like others in Florida, hosted forces bound for Cuba, among them Theodore Roosevelt. In the years that followed, Pensacola continued to expand. 1908 saw the completion of a new Spanish Renaissance City Hall. Around this time, the Daily News was followed by the Pensacola Evening News. The exact year of the transition is uncertain as the Pensacola Evening News continued the numbering of its predecessor. The earliest verified edition of the Pensacola Evening News dates from April 6, 1908.
In 1910, when its population reached 23,000, Pensacola erected its first skyscraper--the ten-story American National Bank building, constructed the San Carlos Hotel, and raised a wooden bridge across Bayou Texar. By 1912, Pensacola had twenty-one miles of paved streets. The first modern hospital opened in 1915, and by 1924 the city’s fire department was entirely motorized. In that same year, the Pensacola Evening News merged its operations with the Pensacola Journal then under the leadership of John H. Perry. For the next six decades, the two papers continued to report the city’s news, the Journal in the morning and the News in the evening.
- Dates or Sequential Designation:
- Began in 1889.
- General Note:
- Description based on: Mar. 5, 1889.
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- University of Florida
- Holding Location:
- University of Florida
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- Resource Identifier:
- 002076174 ( ALEPH )
33669261 ( OCLC ) AKR4558 ( NOTIS ) sn 96027213 ( LCCN )
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