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Last week in response to Power's frantic advertisements, leaflets, letters and personal canvassing, utilities investors were obediently showering telegrams and letters by the thousands on their Representatives. Under Philip H. Gadsdeh, chairman of the Committee of Public Utility Executives, Power had put a small army in the field...
Gardner Cowles was then 42, with six children and not much money. A small-town banker in Algona, in northern Iowa, he had taught school there, married one of the teachers, made a little money as a contractor in rural mail routes. For a while he edited a local weekly...
In 1908 the Register gobbled the newly established Tribune. In 1924 Publisher Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard) visited Des Moines. asked Gardner Cowles ("G. C.") to call at his hotel. In an hour "G. C." had bought the Scripps-Howard News for $150,000. Three years later the Capital, owned...
To Where? If Cowles & Co. should fail in their Minneapolis venture, they would doubtless retire to their Iowa pasture for a long time. If they succeed, it is a practical certainty that the next year or so will see them buying into another city. They have long been surveying the...
*In circulation, however, the Gannett papers, with their 465,000 readers, are not to be compared with Hearst's 5,564,000, or Scripps-Howard's 1,930,000.