Newspaper Douglas International (Douglas, Ariz.) 1912-1913 Douglas daily international
About Douglas International (Douglas, Ariz.) 1912-1913
Douglas, Arizona, located along the border with Sonora, Mexico, was established in 1901 to smelter the copper ores mined in Bisbee and surrounding areas. The weekly Douglas International was the town’s first newspaper, established in February 1902, followed about a month later by its second, the weekly Douglas Dispatch. George H. Kelly was publisher of the International with George F. Meek as its first editor and manager.
In 1902, Kelly and his son William formed the Consolidated Printing and Publishing Company, which owned several Arizona newspapers, including the International, the Bisbee Daily Review, the Arizona Bulletin in Solomonville, and the Morenci-Clifton Standard, leading to a description of Kelly as “a monopolist in the newspaper business in southern Arizona” (Copper Era, January 16, 1902).
C. E. Bull, founder of the Copper Era in Clifton, started the Tombstone American in March 1903. Within a few months, he moved the paper to Douglas and partnered with Kelly to merge their two newspapers as the Daily International-American, published as an afternoon daily; the Dispatch was Douglas’ morning paper. The Kellys added the Arizona Democrat in about 1906, and their company became State Consolidated Publishing in 1907, taking ownership of the Arizona Daily Star until about 1910 when the Kellys divested of Consolidated.
In 1909, the newspaper title became Douglas Daily International, which it remained, other than a brief return to its previous title, Douglas International in 1912-1913. By 1911, Kelly and Bull formed the International Publishing Company, where Bull remained until his death in 1915. N. A. Patterson joined as a publisher until his death in 1919. Kelly, one of Arizona’s “deans of journalism,” was appointed state historian in January 1923, and even then, continued to “personally supervise the editorial policy” of the newspaper, which was a “staunch Democratic organ” (Arizona Republican, March 29, 1925).
The International covered the development of Douglas, “queen of the Arizona border and her sunset skies … city of the big smelter payroll, mining and cattle kings” (December 17, 1917). It also reported on the Arizona Territory’s transition to statehood and Arizona politics. Adding the Associated Press telegraph service in 1905, the paper also delivered national and international news, covering topics such as the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the influenza pandemic. The International regularly printed lengthy special editions, including one in 1917 that described the newspaper’s technological history, from a Symplex machine to a new Mergenthaler linotype to three linotypes and a Cox-Duplex press. A section in the July 2, 1920 issue was devoted to Douglas’ neighbor in Mexico: “Agua Prieta, the Birthplace of Mexico’s New Freedom!” There was often an annual “Greater Progress Edition” that included topics such as railroads, mining, the University of Arizona, and Mexico; these editions tended to be much lengthier with the one in 1920 running 108 pages. In its later years, the International was filled with advertisements and carried comic strips and political cartoons. On April 1, 1925, the Douglas Daily International ceased when it was consolidated with the Douglas Daily Dispatch.
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Title
- Douglas International (Douglas, Ariz.) 1912-1913
Other Title
- Douglas daily international
Dates of Publication
- 1912-1913
Created / Published
- Douglas, Ariz. : International Pub. Co.
Headings
- - Douglas (Ariz.)--Newspapers
- - Cochise County (Ariz.)--Newspapers
- - Arizona--Cochise County
- - Arizona--Douglas
- - United States--Arizona--Cochise--Douglas
Genre
- Newspapers
Notes
- - Daily (except Sun.)
- - Vol. 10, no. 279 (July 1, 1912)-v. 12, no. 110 (Dec. 8, 1913).
- - Douglas daily international (Douglas, Ariz. : 1913) (DLC)sn 95060770
Medium
- v. : ill.
Library of Congress Control Number
- sn95060769
OCLC Number
- 32058903
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