Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 171

May 20, 1990 A Special Section 1 4 Tee Am Mepotuc it iii i y'A rV lt vJJ-Ja 11 ILjL i. I A i VJl 1 I'M i i'-. fen ox. 1 i Tt became the state's largest newspaper. It wasn't easy at first.

In September 1899, at the end of a long summer, the business manager suggested that the proprietor hock his jewelry to carry the enterprise through October. Since then, generations of newspaper staff members have presented the latest eginning a daily newspaper in Phoenix at the start of a long Victorian summer was hardly a prudent business precision. Mechanical cooling would not be available for 40 years, so those who could, left town in the summer. The Arizona Territory was a wilderness, a shoestring colonial enterprise of an ambitious nation. But Gov.

Lewis Wolfley needed an organ to support i -rmmwr: Mclaughlin Historical Collection neWS ffOlll Phoenix, Shang- Arizona Republican staff members at the newspaper, Second and Adams streets, circa 1908. i a did his struggling territorial administration. At the same time, his Arizona Republican was ambitious to circulate throughout the territory, delivering telegraphed news of the world as well as local and state news. Its first issue was published on May 19, 1890. The newspaper did little for Wolfley, a contentious man forced to resign three months after publication began.

But The Arizona Republican struggled into the 20th century, helped Arizona become the 48th state in 1912, and in 1915, and outer space. As a byproduct, they have compiled in microfilm files a massive, disorderly history of Arizona and the world. On this, the first day of our second century, we look back to see where Arizona and the newspaper have been. More than 100 staff.members took time during the news of 1990' to write the retrospective. Hundreds more worked long and hard to sell the advertisements you see and to run the See REPUBLIC, page 2 1 1 riKoJ I A jiui i xamiitmij lroim pwil fff 1 i I 7 If The size of the republics news staff has grown tremendously as arizona has grown, and this is only a portion of the people needed to produce the paper each day.

hundreds of people also work in the advertising, production and circulation departments. jj INSIDE 3 The First Edition tk Top 15 Stories je Paper Route Ptk 100 Years of Change The Arizona Republican began Jr J) What are the top stories of the past 100 I The who, what, where, when, why and Phoenix has changed dramatically in publishing on May 19, 1890, vowing Jr years? Roosevelt Dam? Winnie Ruth how of getting a paper to your 100 years. Some landmarks have objectivity in an era characterized by Judd? Arizona statehood? Here are doorstep, from reporter to paper disappeared. Others have been built. 'I dueling, partisan papers.

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