It is not related to a New York City-based Saturday family newspaper, The Globe, which was founded by James M. Place in 1892 and published until at least 1899.

It was a wholly revamped one-cent version of the two-cent paper known as the Commercial Advertiser which dated back to 1793.

In 1916, the paper distributed the theatrical documentary Germany on the Firing Line, under the titles The Globe's War Films and The Evening Globe's "Germany at the Firing Line".

[7] Notable contributors included a fledgling Maxwell Anderson,[8] and cartoonist Percy Crosby, then a sports columnist.

[9][10] Munsey, who consolidated a number of papers, then merged the Globe into the New York Sun, thus ending the "oldest daily newspaper in the United States" at that time.