The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911 Page: 301
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Activities of Texas Library and Historical Commission 301
January 1 to June 30, 1878.
January 1 to December 31, 1879.
The period of the Civil War is entirely blank in this file. The
State Library has had many inquiries concerning the Herald dur-
ing the war, and many efforts were made to ascertain what be-
came of the missing file. A. C. Gray in his History of the Texas
Press conveys the impression that the Herald was published diur-
ing the war.' An addition to the file of this paper recently made
by the State Library shows that Mr. Gray is in error. It com-
prises the San Antonio Tri-Weekly Herald for the period frwin
August 29 to November 11, 1865, and the Daily Herald from
November 14, 1865, to December 30, 1866. In Volume I, Numn-
ber 1, of the Tri-Weeklcy Herald, issued August 29, 1865, appears
the following editorial paragraph:
In putting forth our Tri-Weekly we are entering upon no un-
tried experiment, we having published in this city a Daily issue
for several years previous to the war, and in point of fact the
first Daily paper2 ever published in this State. 'The demand for
news in this city has never been so great as at present. This
demand it will be our earnest endeavor to supply. At an early
date the electric telegraph will be completed to this city, and from
that date a complete revolution will have been effected on the
whole subject of news and newspapers. Truly, a new era that will
be, when, through the instrumentality of electricity (now that the
Atlantic has been spanned by the 'cable') the news from two con-
tinents shall be published simultaneously in San Antonio!
The same paper, in its issue of October 28, 1865, noted the com-
pletion of the telegraph to San Antonio in the following para-
graphs:
It is with no ordinary satisfaction that we announce the com-
pletion of telegraphic communication to this city-an event which
took place day before yesterday . . . The office of the line is
located in the Menger Hotel, and is under the management of
our young friend, Mr. Charles Spellman . . . He represents
that the line is in full working order to Austin, Houston and Gal-
veston, and through those places to all parts of the United States.
'Oomprehensive History of Texas, II, 395, 405.
2The writer of this statement evidently had forgotten that The Morning
Star was published at Houston from April 8, 1839, until about the middle
of 1841 as a daily paper.
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