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Walter A. Strong, who was Lawson's business manager, spent the rest of the year raising the capital he needed to buy the Daily News. The Chicago Daily News Corporation, of which Strong was the major stockholder, bought the newspaper for $13.7 million (equivalent to $238 million in 2023) [5] —the highest price paid for a newspaper up to that ...
A Hollerith tabulator that has been modified for the first 1890 census tabulation; the punched-card reader was removed, replaced by a simple keyboard. [2]: 61 The 1890 census was the first to be compiled using methods invented by Herman Hollerith and was overseen by Superintendents Robert P. Porter (1889–1893) and Carroll D. Wright (1893–1897).
Chicago Post (1890–1929, absorbed by Daily News) Chicago Record (1881–1901) Chicago Record Herald (1901–1914) Chicago Republican (1865–1872, became Chicago Inter Ocean) Chicago Sun (1941–1948, merged with Chicago Daily Times to form Chicago Sun-Times) Chicago Times (1861–1895, became Times-Herald) Chicago Times-Herald (1895–1901 ...
Competition was especially fierce between the Chicago Times (Democratic), the Chicago Tribune (Republican), and the Daily News (independent), with the latter becoming the city's most popular paper by the 1880s. [50] The city's boasting lobbyists and politicians earned Chicago the nickname "Windy City" in the New York press. The city adopted the ...
This is a list of defunct newspapers of the United States.Only notable names among the thousands of such newspapers are listed, primarily major metropolitan dailies which published for ten years or more.
"In 1890, about one in every 300 railroad workers was killed," Rosenow said. ... Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. ... Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News ...
Dziennik Związkowy (Polish Daily News) – Chicago (Polish) El Conquistador – Geneva (Spanish and English) Hlas Národa (The Voice of the Nation) – Chicago; Naród Polski – Chicago; Naujienos (socialist newspaper) (Lithuanian Daily News) – Chicago; Nedelni Hlasatel (formerly Denni Hlasatel) – Berwyn; Sonntagpost und Milwaukee ...
Donald Trump, getting history and economics very wrong. Indeed, he seems to know one thing about the 1890s in America: That it was a period of high tariffs.