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The Telegraph is an American daily newspaper published seven days a week in Alton, Illinois, serving the St. Louis Metro-East region. It was owned by Civitas Media, based in Davidson, North Carolina, a subsidiary of Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management, which owned about 100 daily and weekly newspapers across 12 states but sold The Telegraph to Hearst Corp. in 2017.
In 1986, Jim Seibold and Sharon McRoy formed Today's AdVantage, [1] a pennysaver that was mailed to 42,000 households in the Riverbend area. In 2013, Alton-based lawyer and owner of Alton Steel John Simmons purchased Today's AdVantage [ 2 ] [ 3 ] from Seibold and McRoy with the intention of turning it into a newspaper.
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Alton was developed as a river town in January 1818 by Rufus Easton, who named it after his son. Easton ran a passenger ferry service across the Mississippi River to the Missouri shore. Alton is located amid the confluence of three navigable rivers: the Illinois, the Mississippi, and the Missouri. Alton grew into a river trading town with an ...
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man. He is the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri. [1]
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The apartments became thereafter known as the 'Stork Nest' flats in Alton. In 1909, Beall purchased a home for his family on "Millionaire's Row". A street where mansions were built in the 1870s to early 1900s. He lived there with his wife until his death. Today, his home is known as the Beall Mansion.