Media Project: 1911
Dallas Morning Newspaper was sited in Dallas, Texas and was created on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo. He was a news writer who was born in Salem, North Carolina and after civil war moved to Houston; in which begin working with partner Willard Richardson. Willard was a news writer for the Texas Almanac and Galveston Daily and took Belo under his wing to become one of the heroic writers in Texas. The Dallas morning news during Belo’s was primarily focused on the latest technology and exploiting ways on taking advantage of its use. The newspaper was very diverse with its variety of information that was prevalent during 1911. However, during this time period and publication dates of October 10th through the 16th there were many different views within the government politics, women’ suffrage, Negros, sports and a diseases namely tuberculosis and typhoid fever, and the world series of baseball. The Dallas Morning news was a daily paper and the reader’s intended for this newspaper was for middle to higher-class citizens, who were looking for the latest and greatest information about the world. Also, intended for spectators of sports in detail and perhaps who would play that day or who would win a specific game.
During 1911 and October 10-16th there was an immense amount of talk about California Election Day and if woman suffrage would be allowed. This was a hard fault battle according to the letter “Relegation to secondary positions by strenuous exponents of suffrage”, which was very downgrading to woman and how they could be essential to the voting and having a right to vote on what they feel is right or not right. Essentially, the triumph was recorded for women suffrage, which was huge for women’s rights and equality as a citizen. There was talk about Woodrow Wilson almost certain he and the Democrats would win the next election, he opposed church in politics and felt that the church would soon be the government if Taft stayed around. However, sports were important during this time as well in this Dallas Morning news it lacked headings of specific topics, so therefore the sports pages ranged from pages 9-14. In this newspaper the main sport was football as they recorded fatal football injuries, high school football scores, Methodist University football and how they were gearing up for big games and what were they keys ways to success. Other sports include handicap tennis, baseball scores and games and its biggest stars, women’s gold tournaments, Amateur Auto racing and amateur athletic events namely a track meet. There were evidence of racial incidents where Negros were beady beaten by mobs and lynched for being suspects that looked like they had done something wrong or perhaps being at the wrong place at the wrong time, there churches were adjourned as well. Women, were no treated equally as they were not allowed to vote for while, but essentially they won woman suffrage for California, but not universally. Chicago Tribune newspaper was sited in Chicago, Illinois and was daily newspaper that was publicized by the Tribune Company in 1847 and was referred as the “World’s Greatest Paper” at the beginning of every issue. This paper was one that exemplified ways of getting the reader’s attention with many ads of food, clothes and remedies that were elusive and example was “how to keep well: insomnia” which was a brief idea of how to overcome it. However, this newspaper caught readers of all genders, and ages as it had cartoon clippings of sports, and importance of woman and men martial status. During 1911 this paper was one that stressed the importance of baseball, Taft winning favors in the enemy’s state Washington, and fears of money monopoly, and also the exploitation of music and drama and its significance. During this time of 1911 October 10-16th Taft encouraged the suffrage he says “state of Washington must prove wisdom or folly of women voting” hoping that all woman would vote, in which they did for their rights to vote even though it was Taft enemy state and he ends up winning Washington’s vote. However, the Chicago women petition for nation wide suffrage but are denied. Drama and music was shown in this newspaper as well as women were leading two plays and it showed a big picture of two women. Also on the front page of the newspaper with a title called “sane people fallen in love” with one gentleman on the front as well. There was a specific section that was called “Sport Section” and these were located from pages 8-12 and it illustrate in cartoon. The main sport mentioned was baseball and the sporting calendar for all games, and the predictions of who would in the finals, the Cubs vs. Sox and the Giants vs. New York were the big games ahead. Other sports covered were football, Amateur golf. There was evidence of bias against women as within the early elections showed equal suffrage was beaten at the poll, and people voted against women’s right. The New York Times newspaper was sited in New York City ever since 1851. This was a daily newspaper that was founded by Henry Jarvis and George Jones who was significant journalist and had high value intellectual skills. The newspaper was and is still very popular online and draw in a large amount of diverse readers, the newspaper intends to grasp all people attention as it said one of the largest metropolitan newspaper in the U.S. today. During 1911 this paper was depicted as one of the major newspapers and it has many sections that related to all groups in society, it talked about sports, the economy, the government and other genders, and races. During the 1911 October 10-16th editions the big talk was Merchant Cornelius Bliss and his death and how his significance to the business world and of the metropolis in the United States. Weather indications of this time says they’re no danger of water famine and that in the month of October the rain has made is safe for another year. Real estate field were significant during this time as property in Queens and Bronx we hot on the market. There were a very large amount of big picture photos of The Vienna Bread Riots, The 130th Anniversary of the surrender of Yorktown, the French naval disaster and many pictures of “the woman” and their autumn hats showing different styles during this time. The revolution in piano selling was very important as there we about 8 to 9 ads of promoting music and to play the piano. The Fight for tobacco plan as non ending trust was vital as well as there were promotion to abolish to tobacco, but there was little to no hope in the plan of the law being passed. In the sports section there we no specific heading, but he was assumed that from pages 8-12 were the start of sports. However, many of the sporting events started on the first page with a big caption and were not found until later pages. The major sports during 1911 were seemingly, baseball as the world series was near and the Giants and New York game was of most significance. In the New York Times they spoke of baseball as the biggest thing in New York and why it was important for New York to win in a rather large amount of detail. The other sports included car racing, college football Princeton and Yale, woman gold matches, animal showing and a close soccer contest, and horse shows. Evidence show that Negroes were lynched regularly and one reason was the attack on white women. However, a solider in this issue was said to attack a 19-year girl and was only arrested not lynched like the Negroes.
Similarly, in the Dallas Morning news, New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune the topic of Women suffrage in California came up a lot and within the newspapers each had a section on what has been done, or their predictions on what should be done. However, each spoke on finances and economics in their newspapers and how things might be reformed or loans being aboard. Winning in government was shown as well as the Dallas morning news showed that Woodrow Wilson felt he would win the next election, and The Tribune showing Taft won of the enemy’s state Washington, and The New York times showing how California farmers give the vote to women. Sporting events commonly spoke about in all 3 newspapers was football, baseball, and some type of racing during this time period. Sporting events were very significant in each newspaper and each had a dedication section some with specific labeled sections and others without, but it was known information. On the contrary, each paper was different as The Dallas morning news covered women sports and so did New York Times, but the Chicago Tribune did not and showed women’s ability in drama, and music. In the Dallas morning news football talked about a lot and in the New your times and Tribune baseball was very much emphasized as the most important. The New York Times used title captions for its sports sections and so did Chicago Tribune as it used illustrations, but the Dallas morning News was very plain and dry and in my opinion fail to get readers attention.
Baseball and football were the main two sports discussed in each of the newspaper. In the Dallas morning news football was briefly examined and talked about, but did not give a vast amount of information. On the other hand, Baseball was the main topic of the others as they intensely spoke about how teams would win and details of who the most valuable player would be. Similarly both New your times and Tribune briefly spoke on football as did Dallas morning news, but they really focused their time on baseball. The coverage within the three differ in Dallas uses more of a passive view of sports, Tribune a very elusive view of sports, and New York times an extreme obsession of sports during this time period.
Each newspaper had a different viewpoint on society and showed where they chose to focused their attention on in the world. They all gave their suggestions to readers as well as examined major issues in the world and in sport. The value of sport was expressed through each newspaper and was depicted in each state differently.