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Sure he was on the right track, Publisher Abell spread himself more & more for stories. He ran special trains from Washington with Government news, used express riders and carrier pigeons to speed his copy, foreshadowed modern press associations by cooperating with other newspapers for the good of all. When the...
The Mexican War in 1846 gave Publisher Abel a chance to prove his mettle as a fast newsgatherer. With a relay of telegraph lines, railroads, steamboats, stagecoaches and "60 blooded horses," the Sun brought news of the capture of Vera Cruz to President James Knox Polk before his own War...
At the war's outset, the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, chased through Baltimore by Southern-sympathizing rioters, was saved by heroic Mayor George William Brown, who brandished his umbrella at the mobsters, and 50 policemen who overawed the crowd with their drawn revolvers. Fifteen citizens and soldiers were killed that...
In the 1880s, war-weary Founder Abell began to turn the Sun over to three of his boys. Of these, rotund George William served as president until 1894. Benign Son Edwin Franklin then took over. To needy folk, Son Edwin would give bits of paper with "$10 - E.F.A." scribbled across...
In 1914, after the Suns had run up a frightening deficit under Charles H. Grasty (who succeeded Walter Abell as president of A. S. Abell Co. in 1910), an able financier came to the rescue in the person of Baltimore's Van Lear Black. Hearing whispers that the Suns...