With the building of transcontinental railroads, it was possible to deliver periodical newspapers by mail throughout the central and western U.S. The Inter Ocean developed a family of semi-weekly, weekly and Sunday editions that were intended to become a definitive source of news for businesspeople throughout the American West, and in fact fulfilled that role for several decades.
The Inter Ocean—The Question and the Answer
JUDGE, Jan. 19, 1891—What will Chicago do with its White Elephant?
TYPICAL CHICAGO, Aug. 27, 1893—This is what I have done with it
Starting the Machinery of the World’s Fair in Front of the Admissions Building
3 May 1893
Illinois Building at the World’s Fair
May 17, 1893
Main Entrance to the Austrian Exhibit in the Manufactures Building
24 May 1893
In the Creche of the Children’s Building
9 Jul 1893
He Rules the Roost
16 Jul 1893
Relics in the Government Building
19 Jul 1893
Fish Exhibits Illinois Building
26 Jul 1893
The Michigan State Building
2 Aug 1893
The Grand Basin Looking Southern From Electricity
16 Aug 1893
The Missouri State Building
23 Aug 1893
The Main State Building
6 Sep 1893
The Swedish Building at the World’s Fair.
13 Sep 1893
The Ohio State Building
27 Sep1893
The Exposition out of Debt
9 Oct 1893
Chicago Day Edition
9 Oct 1893
The South Entrance to the Electricity Building
11 Oct 1893
Evening on the Lagoon
29 Oct1893
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