Taking his share of the capital and "handsome profit" derived by the sale of the Birmingham Age-Herald (TIME, March 21) Frederick I. Thompson, publisher of all the newspapers in Mobile, Ala., last week bought an Evening Times, and thereby became publisher of all the evening newspapers in his state's capital, Montgomery. He merged the Evening Times with his Montgomery Evening Journal. Publisher Thompson's onetime partners in Birmingham, onetime Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and son Donald Comer, were not associated with him in the new purchase, their interest...
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