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...Public Ledgers and Inquirer owned by old Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Against them is the Record, lusty bratling of Publisher Julius David Stern. They fight editorially-liberal, hard-hitting Record v. high Tory Public Ledgers and Inquirer. They fight for circulation-with the Record (149,000) now well ahead of the morning Public Ledger (105,000) and creeping up on the Inquirer, which still has an ample lead (232,000). Fiercest of all is the fight for advertising, in which the Record has beaten the Public Ledger, is worrying the Inquirer...
...first time since the last of May, 1776, the ledger and journal of Edward Hutchinson, treasurer of Harvard College from 1721 to 1752, were placed together last Friday, on the shelves in the Archives Division of the College Library, after an interesting separation of 157 years...
...meantime the journal had disappeared. Apparently the whole trouble was the result of the carelessness of Hancock's coachman, who was told to bring six books, and forgot exactly half of them. The missing ledger lay in the Hancock stable from 1776 until 1863, when the building was torn down. Mr. C. L. Hancock, of the class of 1829, found the book and turned it over to the College Library on April...
Among the missing books was Edward Hutchinson's journal. The companion volume, his ledger, was taken to Philadelphia, brought back, and then turned over to Ebenezeer Storer, the next treasurer...
Whaley edited the Evening Ledger. Both were lawyers. They conceived the letter idea after encountering difficulty in obtaining the sort of correspondence they wanted from their Capital newsmen...