The Evening Telegram was first issued on Jan. 30, 1902, by the Salt Lake Telegram Publishing Co. with the claim that it was the "only 1 cent paper in Utah". None of its three Salt Lake City newspaper contemporaries bothered to mention the latest newspaper addition. The Telegram took over the lease of the Herald Republican on Feb. 28, 1918, and the combined papers were published as a single paper, retaining the Herald Republican name. But later that year, in July, the Herald Republican name was dropped, the paper reverted back to its Telegram name, and the Sunday edition was launched.

The Utah Digital Newspapers Program would like to extend its most sincere thanks to the Division of Community and Culture for the use of their original newspapers for the creation of this collection.