The Griffin Daily News

[2] The Griffin News was founded in 1871 as a daily publishing each weekday except Monday with a weekly on Friday.

[7] Under Glessner's editorship the paper published racially inflammatory material and took a pro-lynching stance.

[8] The paper is seen by historian Edwin T. Arnold as a provocateur in events surrounding the all-black regiment the "Tenth Immunes", a Buffalo Soldier regiment, as they passed through Griffin, with much of that paper's coverage setting the national tone of coverage for those events.

[10] At the time of Glessner's sudden death in 1910 due to neprhitis, the paper was considered one of the "leading Democratic newspapers of middle Georgia.

[12] It was bought the subsequent year by Quimby Melton, a former manager for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain.