Word: couriers
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Amos Parker Wilder, 67, father of Thornton Niven (Bridge of San Luis Rey) Wilder, retired last week as associate editor of the New Haven Journal-Courier...
During the Mexican War, Bennett established a courier system for the Herald correspondents; he covered the Civil War with 40 reporters on the various fronts. As a source of news, the Herald dominated the U. S. field and was practically the only U. S. newspaper read in Europe. President Lincoln, knowing the importance of the Herald, once offered Bennett the portfolio of Minister to France...
Died. J. Louis Webb, 73, Manhattan connoisseur, art collector, huntsman, fisherman, uncle of famed Poloist J. Watson Webb, son of late Editor James Watson Webb (New York Courier & Enquirer, 1827-61), grandson of Brig. Gen. Samuel Blatchley Webb, of George Washington's Army; in Manhattan...
...largest Negro publication, the Chicago Defender (daily, circulation 208,000), is also for Smith. But other negro publications are for Hoover, including: Pittsburgh Courier 45,000 Houston Informer 15,600 St, Louis Argus 26.500 Philadelphia Tribune 15,000 Manhattan Amsterdam News 29,000 Manhattan Age 38,000 Atlanta Independent 11,000 Baltimore Herald-Commonwealth 7,500 Cleveland Call...
Louisville was a logical place, and at the same time a fearsome place, for a Democratic speech on the tariff. It was in Louisville, in the columns of his Courier-Journal, that the late Col. Henry Watterson (1842-1921) used to thunder about the tariff. It was Col. Watterson who called the Democratic party "the star-eyed goddess of tariff reform" and who in 1884 coined the oldtime phrase, "A tariff for revenue only," a phrase repeated in national Democratic platforms as late as 1920. Nominee Smith had the double problem of breaking away from the revenue-only tradition...