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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 ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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 ...
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 ...
The Chicago circulation wars were a period of competition between William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Evening American and both Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune and Victor Lawson's Chicago Daily News in the early 1900s that devolved into violence and resulted in more than 20 deaths.
Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the dangerous workplaces.
Robert Joseph Casey (1890-1962) was a decorated combat veteran and distinguished Chicago-based newspaper correspondent and columnist.. Casey was born March 14, 1890, in Beresford, South Dakota, and attended St. Mary's College in St. Marys, Kansas from 1907 to 1911.
The Tariff Act of 1890 was known as the McKinley Tariff because McKinley was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee when it was enacted. An openly protectionist measure, it raised duties ...