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...William D. Orthwein II, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Kelley and a cousin of young Adolphus Busch Orthwein. And there was the most intense rivalry in the local press, notably between St. Louis' two famed newshawks, Harry Thompson Brundidge of the Star, and John T. Rogers of the Post-Dispatch. Brundidge had scooped the town on the Adolphus Busch Orthwein case...
...this time it was Reporter Rogers' turn. Last week, on the eighth day after the kidnapping, he summoned William Orthwein to his (Rogers') home, presented to him Dr. Kelley. There they stayed until the Post-Dispatch had an extra on the streets, screaming: DR. KELLEY RELEASED TO POST-DISPATCH MAN. Some hours later the doctor was escorted to his home, where he told all reporters what the Post-Dispatch had already printed in infinite detail...
...young ex-soldier who rode brakerods from New York to St. Louis, in whose friendly German atmosphere he made his way as a journalist; of how he married Kate Davis, daughter of a distant cousin of the late, great Jefferson Davis; of how he began building the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but left town after his aide fatally shot a prominent lawyer; of how, pausing in New York on his way to Europe the next year (1883), he found the faltering World for sale and bought it from Jay Gould...
...upspokenness of Roy Howard was what took him from hawking newspapers in Indianapolis to the top of the largest U. S. newspaper chain (now 25 strong). It failed to get him along on Old Joe Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, where as an assistant telegraph operator he once demanded a $3 raise in vain. But he left Pulitzer and not many years later was confronting Old Man Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with...
About the same time the St. Louis Star sued for admission to the A. P., which had made an exclusive contract with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In that case the A. P. won on the decision: "Everyone is at liberty to gather news; and the fact that one has greater facilities ... or that mere incorporation has been granted a company for the purpose of gathering news, does not . . . give the state the right to regulate what before incorporation was but a natural right...