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...late great Joseph Pulitzer founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1878. His capital was $5.200. The paper's circulation started at 987. In 1882 it was earning $85,000 a year. With his profits Publisher Pulitzer bought the New York World in 1883, built it into an even greater newspaper than the Post-Dispatch...
...overnight, convinced himself it would not shrink, then ordered a dozen shirts. Shirts and towels sold by the thousand. The Macy advertisement was the first of its kind in Manhattan, the first anywhere in rotogravure. The idea was first introduced into newspaper advertising last spring in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co. That the Macy advertisement would be the last in the U. S. for a long time seemed likely last week when the Post Office Department invoked an old regulation against attaching any merchandise to copies of a publication using second-class mail...
...also the first newspaper in the U. S. to install a Morse telegraph wire and a linotype machine. Other underwriters included the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Times, Washington Star, Washington Post, Philadelphia Bulletin, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland News, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Des Moines Register and Tribune, Omaha World-Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Miami Daily News, Dayton News, Buffalo News, Buffalo Courier-Express, Syracuse Herald, Oklahoma City Oklahoman, Dallas News...
...assassination of McKinley, the Roosevelt Administration, the election of Taft - Joseph Pulitzer saw almost nothing. Last week Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 49, was cruising around the world with his wife on the Empress of Britain. When the huge Canadian Pacific liner reached Manila, the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had to cancel a speech he was to have made at a newspaper dinner. From his cabin word went forth that his eyes had suddenly failed him. His left eye was reported completely blind, his right one nearly so. In their health, Joseph Pulitzer's sons resemble their father...
...matter of fact, doctors, experts and specialists have seized upon this situation with all the impersonal, detached enthusiasm characteristic of the scientific mind, congregating in St. Louis as to a great field laboratory. When a Post-Dispatch reporter asked a woman from the East, distinguished in research, her aim in coming to the city, she replied: "To improve my mind." Meanwhile. Mrs. Smith of Oregon or New Mexico or Virginia, reads of all these famous people from New York, the Federal agencies, Rochester, Minn., etc., etc., and it seems to her like the gathering of shock troops to combat...