The ''Dallas Times'' was an afternoon
newspaper
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published in
Dallas
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,
Texas
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(
USA
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) from 1876 until it merged with the ''
Dallas Herald'' 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''), became the major afternoon Dallas newspaper and published until December 1991,
when the ''
Dallas Morning News'' 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