The ''Dallas Times'' was an afternoon
newspaper
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published in
Dallas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...
,
Texas
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(
USA
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) from 1876 until it merged with the ''
Dallas Herald
Two newspapers of general circulation in Dallas, Texas (USA) have operated under the name ''Dallas Herald''.
First ''Dallas Herald'' (1849-1885)
The first permanent settler of Dallas, John Neely Bryan, settled there in 1841. The first local ...
'' in 1888 to form the
''Daily Times Herald''.
William G. Sterett, who had been in Dallas a short while and had been practicing law, bought the ''Times'' not long after it began publication. He edited it until he joined the
''Dallas Morning News'' on October 1, 1885, the day the ''Morning News'' began publication, but retained ownership until late 1888, when he sold his interest in the ''Times Herald'' to Charles Edwin Gilbert. Under Sterett’s editorial direction, the ''Times'' strongly opposed
prohibition
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.
In January 1888 the ''Times'' merged with the
''Herald'', which had begun publication in 1886 shortly after the oldest Dallas newspaper, also known as the ''Herald'', quit publication. The resulting newspaper, the ''Daily Times Herald'' (later publishing under the name ''
Dallas Times Herald
The ''Dallas Times Herald'', founded in 1888 by a merger of the '' Dallas Times'' and the '' Dallas Herald'', was once one of two major daily newspapers serving the Dallas, Texas ( USA) area. It won three Pulitzer Prizes, all for photography, an ...
''), became the major afternoon Dallas newspaper and published until December 1991,
when the ''
Dallas Morning News
''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ' ...
'' bought it and immediately closed it.
References
*The Times-Herald. ''Dallas Morning News'', Dec. 14, 1888, p. 4.
*Col. W. G. Sterett Dies at Home Here. ''Dallas Morning News'', Oct. 8, 1924, sec. 1, p. 1.
*''The WPA Dallas Guide and History''. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1992. .
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Defunct newspapers of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex