The Press: Chapter Heading

The Age-Herald, oldest daily newspaper in Birmingham, Ala., was sold last week. The buyer was E. D. DeWitt of Manhattan who used to manage the late Grocer-Publisher Frank A. Munsey's New York Herald. Mr. DeWitt told Birmingham two things: 1) that he had paid the Age-Herald's previous owners a "handsome profit" on their original investment; 2) that he was not going to change the staff or policies that had kept the Age-Herald "in step with the best thought of the community." These were good businesslike statements by a man entering a booming city...

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