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(3 of 3) edition in 1844. Bowles II was the family genius, for he it was who began to tell the Springfield villagers about themselves. He printed local news and more and more of it, thus sounding the key-note of American small-town papers. Bowles II also rose to...
A crooked Tammany judge. (P. 22.)
Her life at Court was not happy. She was continually being placed in Monsieur's or the King's bad books by the scurrilous reports of her enemies, which were to the effect that she was carrying on an "affaire" with some gallant. These were but malicious lies...
The Prudential was founded in 1848 in London, by a group of public-spirited men who wished to do away with the expensive and often fraudulent burial clubs of that day. The insurance business already existed, but it partook of a reckless and unscientific gambling character and its methods were...
He made his name, however, when in 1892 he became publisher and part owner of a struggling, uninfluential little paper, The Baltimore News. He built it up, he fought crooked politics tooth and nail, he made it into a paper to be reckoned with.