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Seven years ago Governor Ross Shaw Sterling of Texas, as publisher, combined his newly acquired Houston Dispatch (onetime Klan paper) with the venerable Houston Post and called the amalgam the Post-Dispatch. Shortly thereafter the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch went to Federal Court in Houston and demanded that Publisher Sterling change the name of his paper. Throughout the Southwest, they said, the Post-Dispatch was understood to mean the St. Louis paper. The court denied the suit. Last week Publisher J . Josey, who acquired the Post-Dispatch from Governor Sterling two months ago. voluntarily shortened its name...
...Christmas holiday in Florida in 1924 Hannagan again encountered Carl Fisher who was then developing Miami Beach. Mourning the fact that the Press made no distinction between Miami and Miami Beach, three miles from the mainland, Promoter Fisher again hired Hannagan. Few days later Hannagan wired his first dispatch to United Press: MIAMI BEACH FLA - FLASH - JULIUS FLEISCHMANN DROPPED DEAD ON POLO FIELD HERE STOP DONT FORGET MIAMI BEACH DATELINE...
...hour stop none your business what doing Tia Juana stop wire fifty dollars care Chungking laundry San Francisco stop refuse cover Manchuria too cold stop advice urge Stimson urge Italian embassy. Washington urge Mussolini not protest stop gravity situation exaggerated stop war put Japan on copper standard stop dispatch today states Harbin Chinese lose five hundred, Japanese ten stop Japanese cant hold out long that rate stop Chiang Kaishek probably in new capital stop advice look west of Nanking stop didnt know there was Chinese navy stop will wire all developments at intervals stop why not advise me earlier stop...
...child of Cornelia Lane Anderson, first of Author Anderson's three divorced wives. Educated in a Michigan City (Ind.) high school. Bob attended University of Virginia for a year, worked as a newsgatherer and rewrite man on the Michigan City News, New Orleans Item-Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Indianapolis News, Vincennes (Ind.) Sun, Roanoke (Va.) Times, Philadelphia Bulletin. In the Marion papers he writes under the signature of "Zip Coon" (the elder Anderson signs himself "Buck Fever of Coon Hollow"). He has had nothing published except a small pamphlet relating the astonishing adventures of a romantic steer...
Many Texans nodded sagely, insisted that Mr. Josey was merely a dummy for Banker Jones who would eventually take over the Post-Dispatch. Both men firmly denied...