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Died. William George Krieghoff, 54, Philadelphia Public Ledger's famed portraitist, painter of the late Chief Justice Taft, Col. Lindbergh. Eva Le Galhenne; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
Gratified, the N.A.A.C.P. announced that 22 daily newspapers capitalize the black race. Four of the dailies, significantly, are in the south: Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Durham (N.C.) Sun, Raleigh (N.C.) News, Columbus (Ga.) Ledger...
...took to wife Alice W. Pillsbury of Milwaukee, daughter of Publisher Curtis's second cousin. A year later, Publisher Curtis made that second cousin his second wife. Two years after, John Charles Martin left the machinery business to run Mr. Curtis's first newspaper, the Philadelphia Public Ledger...
Since then, with little direction from above, he has played a sharp game in Philadelphia journalism. Soon after the purchase of the Ledger (1913), the Evening Ledger was founded. Then the Evening Telegraph was merged with the Evening Ledger. Then the Ledger absorbed the North American and the Press. In 1925 Publisher Martin broke into the tabloid field by founding the Sim to compete with the News (MacFadden-operated), which had sprung up that year. The Sun failed two years ago. The only Curtis-Martin paper outside the home town is the New York Evening Post (bought...
...store of his accomplishments. The full blossomed lot of pleasure has not been his during this last stretch of Saturdays. His coup detat, the carefully laid scheme to fly to Michigan, having been uncovered by the Yellow Press, he can reckon little for the credit side of his ledger...