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Like another newspaper chain owner, famed Frank Ernest Gannett, Publisher Block was trained in the quiet city of Elmira, in the "southern tier" of New York State. He went to Public School No. 1, and in his summer vacations he did odd jobs, ran errands for the Sunday Telegram...
...newspaper he has bought celebrates this year its centenary. Substantial and progressive, ft has increased its circulation by 50% in the last seven years, now stands sixth in the nation in classified advertising lineage. It is devoted to the cause of good Republicanism and Mr. Gannett will not interfere. He reassures the doubtful: "It is my belief that a newspaper publisher should be free from any political ambitions. . . . The editor of the Democrat and Chronicle . . . will not have to obey orders ... so long as he is intellectually honest, sincere, fair, tolerant and clean. I do not care fundamentally for money...
Thus Frank Gannett made good in Rochester, perhaps the most satisfactory achievement of his life. He paid more for the Hartford Times (TIME, Feb. 6), but he cares more for the Democrat and Chronicle. He is known from coast to coast, but cleanly, comfortable Rochester held the particular puddle in which he wanted...
...Rochester is the largest city yet invaded by Mr. Gannett, the majority of his papers being in cities of less than 100,000 population. The Hearst and Scripps systems are built around great metropolitan dailies. The cities...
Hearst Scripps-Howard Gannett New York (2) New York Ithaca...