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...course, Mr. Ochs had his side lines. In 1901 he made an excursion into Philadelphia, bought the Times there, and later the Public Ledger, which he consolidated. In 1912 he sold this property to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. As sidelines with The New York Times, he also publishes The Annalist, The Times Mid-Week Pictorial and Current History Magazine...
...tennis porches, the question of the hour was: "Can Tilden add a fifth consecutive year to the string of National championships he blazons across the top of his column in the Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...writer then closed, mellifluously: "Papers everywhere are splendidly good." There are, obviously, exceptions to the rules thus laid down. What newspaper, save the Chicago Tribune, could "boost" its home town with more incessant ardor than the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Baltimore Sun, the Bridgeport Post, the Philadelphia Public Ledger or the New York World? What newspaper could, in fairness to its readers, carry more educational news than that earnest sheet, the Christian Science Monitor? What newspaper would dare charge more than five cents, as do the New York Evening Post and that earnest sheet, the Christian Science Monitor...
...been often remarked. The passing of the "Benedict's Shoe Store" in recent weeks terminates a business which has been in the hands of the Benedict family of New Canaan, Conn., for 162 years. The business was started some time prior to 1762-the date of the first ledger entry on the Company's books-by one James Benedict, who started a shoe factory at New Canaan. Soon the "cordwainers" of New Canaan became nationally known for their fine products, and sold largely to the southern trade- even to New Orleans. In the Civil War the factory, then...
...Fred Essary of New Orleans Item. R. V. Oulahan of The New York Times Carter Field of the New York Tribune Charles Michelson of the New York World Robert Barry of the Philadelphia Public Ledger...