| Show UTAH SIX SURVIVING DAILIES statehood by 23 years Actually The Daily Herald isderivative of several newspapers the earliest being The Provo Daily Times founded August 1873 The perilous nature of the business is indicated by the number of name changes the paper went through over the years usually accompanied bychange in management The Times became the Utah County Advertiser the Utah County Enquirer the Territorial Enquirer and the Utah Engquirer before emerging November 30 1889 as the Daily Enquirer with John Graham as publisher Graham dominated nearly three decades of newspapering in Utah County and is noted for bringing the first Linotype to Provo just after the turn of the century He died in 1906 andyear later the struggling Enquirer was sold to Heber and Nephi Hicks two brothers who changed the name to The Post and began publishing semi-weekly The newspapers from The Times to The Post were among some 15 published in Provo during the latter quarter of the 19th century One of the others was the Utah County Democrat founded in 1898 decade later Editor David Larson assured readers that The Democrat is Democratic all the way But shortly after Republicans swept elections statewide he renamed it The Provo Herald and announced January 1909 that the paper would be politically independent The Post and the Herald were fierce rivals for 17 years arguing publicly about everything from politics to quality of photographs in each paper Edward Rodgers became editor of the Herald in April 1921 and feeling that Provo could not sustain two newspapers proposed that the Hicks brothers join him to form one publication When his proposal was spurned he set out to eliminate the competition In April 1922 Rodgers changed his triweekly paper to The Daily Herald including The Sunday Herald and addedwire service He also mounted an aggressive circulation campaign that soon captured 84 percent of the readership market -more than double that of the Post 143 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
