Chicago Daily News
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Title
Chicago Daily News
Subject
newspaper
Description
The Daily News was founded in 1875 and began publishing early the next year. It was the first one-cent newspaper published in Chicago. It strove for mass readership. The purpose was to establish a paper the price of which should be the lowest unit of American coinage, so that no one could get below them in price; then to make it just as good in point of news as any higher priced paper in the city; to let its price alone carry it to the lower classes of society, and make its tone as high as that of any paper, feeling assured that its price would take care of the lower classes, and relying upon its tone to give it character among the better classes. Their idea, in brief, was to give a five-cent paper for one cent; and they believed there was a fortune in it. The ideal they had in view for the Daily News involved other radical changes.
Creator
Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William E. Dougherty (Founders, 1875)
Victor F. Lawson (Owner, 1876-1925)
Victor F. Lawson (Owner, 1876-1925)
Date
1876-1978
Contributor
Rebecca Parker
Relation
online resources: Wikipedia, WorldCat, Chicagology
Format
newspaper
Language
English
Type
newspaper
Coverage
19th - 20th Century Chicago
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
newspaper
Files
Collection
Citation
Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William E. Dougherty (Founders, 1875)
Victor F. Lawson (Owner, 1876-1925), “Chicago Daily News,” Paris of the Midwest: Chicago, 1837-1987, accessed April 25, 2024, https://parisofthemidwest.omeka.net/items/show/167.