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^ Daily Herald x starts 98th year of Coast service
In a sense, today begins a new year for us and it is an appropriate time to pause, reflect on the past, look to the future and renew our dedication. Today, The Daily Herald starts its 98th year of service to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Vol. 1, No. 1 was a four-page newspaper called the Biloxi Herald, a weekly launched by George M. Wilkes on borrowed funds and a journalistic aspiration to provide local news to the approximately 1,500 people who lived in what was then a little-known fishing village.
From that modest beginning, the newspaper became a part of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, growing to become a daily in the 15th year and later expanding the area of service to include Gulfport and other Coast communities.
Together, the Gulf Coast and The Herald continued to grow, remaining under the ownership of Mr. Wilkes and his family until our 84th year, when the newspaper was sold to the State-Record Company of Columbia, S. C.
>	On the newspaper’s 50th anniversary, the Herald published a Golden Jubilee booklet in which the editor reflected on the changes during the newspaper’s first 50 years, including these observations:
“During the life of the Herald, the lighting of Biloxi’s streets has changed from kerosene lamp posts — which were lighted each evening by a city employe, going from post to post — to electric lights.
“It has seen mule-power street cars changed to electric trolley cars, and these to automobile buses;
“City government changed from aldermanic to commission form;...
“State shows in Dukate’s Theatre displaced by the silent picture theatre, then the talkies;
“The transition of the horse and livery stable to the automobile and garage;
“The choice saloon corners taken by the gasoline filling stations.
“It has seen the telephone come into general use; the invention and growth of the aeroplane and the radio.”
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