Until last week the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the land was Ohio s Procter group of 17, assembled by the late Col William Cooper Procter (Ivory Soap) and Charles Bond (Two-Pants Suits) at a cost of $300,000. Last week the Procter chain fell into second place as the three Woodyard brothers of West Virginia marched into New York State. With the help of their good friend Spruille Braden, whose father made his money in Chile copper they raised some $60,000 new capital, acquired control of eight weeklies on Long Island's...
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