Lordsburg Advance, New Mexico

The first paper at Lordsburg was the Advance which, to use the popular mode of expressing the fact, "went busted." The Western Liberal was founded November 14, 1887, by S. D. Dye and Don H. Kedzie. The former being succeeded by W. H. Small, and a year later Mr. Kedzie became sole proprietor, and has conducted the paper to the present writing. During his proprietorship every other paper in the Territory has changed control at least once.

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Source: History of New Mexico, Its Resources and People, VolumeI, Pacific States Publishing Co., 1907.