The Dallas Times was an afternoon
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published in
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) from 1876 until it merged with the
Dallas HeraldTwo newspapers of general circulation in Dallas, Texas have operated under the name Dallas Herald.- First Dallas Herald :...
in 1888 to form the
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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 NewsThe Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010...
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 C. E. Gilbert. Under Sterett’s editorial direction, the Times strongly opposed
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In January 1888 the Times merged with the
HeraldTwo newspapers of general circulation in Dallas, Texas have operated under the name Dallas Herald.- First Dallas 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 HeraldThe 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 area. It won three Pulitzer Prizes, all for photography, and two George Polk Awards, for local and regional reporting...
), became the major afternoon Dallas newspaper and published until December 1991, when the Dallas Morning News bought it and immediately closed it.