From Philadelphia, one day last week, came the announcement that the seven trustees of the estate of late, great Publisher Cyrus Curtis had sold the evening Public Ledger to a company headed by Robert Cresswell, treasurer until last month of the New York Herald Tribune.
The Public Ledger was a famed old morning paper when Curtis bought it from the late Adolph Simon Ochs (publisher of the New York Times) in 1913. He paid $2,000,000, proceeded to spend hundreds of thousands more for new equipment. To keep the Ledger presses busy he brought out an...
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