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...soldier who rode brakerods from New York to St. Louis, in whose friendly German atmosphere he made his way as a journalist; of how he married Kate Davis, daughter of a distant cousin of the late, great Jefferson Davis; of how he began building the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but left town after his aide fatally shot a prominent lawyer; of how, pausing in New York on his way to Europe the next year (1883), he found the faltering World for sale and bought it from Jay Gould...
About the same time the St. Louis Star sued for admission to the A. P., which had made an exclusive contract with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In that case the A. P. won on the decision: "Everyone is at liberty to gather news; and the fact that one has greater facilities ... or that mere incorporation has been granted a company for the purpose of gathering news, does not . . . give the state the right to regulate what before incorporation was but a natural right...
...obtaining money falsely is by no means limited to residents of New York City and vicinity, according to information gathered here recently. During the past year, especially, residents of middle western cities have been bothered in much the same fashion as those New Yorkers cited in a recent dispatch from Cambridge...
...outsider who thinks at random of St. Louis newspapers, the names of the venerable Globe-Democrat or progressive (Pulitzer) Post-Dispatch come to mind. But throughout the past fortnight both great papers were soundly larruped on St. Louis' newstory-of-the-month - possibly its story of the year: the kidnapping and return of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein, grandson of famed August A. Busch (TIME, Jan. 12). The sheet that ran away with the story was the loud, energetic St. Louis Star...
...Star's opposition took its defeat in the Busch case bitterly, the Times reputedly discharging three reporters for falling down. The Globe Democrat man had even talked to the elder Abernathy, but could not make him talk "kidnap." The Post-Dispatch had assigned its own No. i newsman, and one not often bested -John T. Rogers...