The Press: In San Francisco

Last week Publisher William Randolph Hearst made an announcement in the city where he first began publishing newspapers. He purchased from C. H. Brockhagen the San Francisco Bulletin and merged it with his San Francisco Call-Post. Editor Fremont Older of the Call-Post, 6 ft. 2 in., with a sea-captain's mustache, would continue as editor of the combined newspapers.

Citizens of graftless San Francisco thought back over 25 years, when large in San Francisco's vocabulary was the word Graft, when Fremont Older rose to fame among...

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