Baltimore Morning Herald
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Founded | February 10, 1900 |
The Baltimore Morning Herald was a daily newspaper published in Baltimore in the beginning of the 20th century.
History
[edit]The first edition was published on February 10, 1900.[1] The paper succeeded the Morning Herald and was absorbed later by the Baltimore Evening Herald on August 31, 1904, (six months after the devastating Great Baltimore Fire) appearing on weekends as the Baltimore Sunday Herald.[2] Its offices were located at the northwest corner of St. Paul and East Fayette Streets, facing the west end of the recently completed monumental Baltimore City Circuit Courthouses of 1896-1900 (renamed for Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. in 1985).
The building of editorial offices and printing plant was devastated by the Great Baltimore Fire of February 1904 and stood on the northern edge of the Downtown Baltimore "Burnt District". The Herald printed an edition the first night of the fire on the press of the nearby The Washington Post (40 miles southwest), in exchange for providing photographs to The Post, but could not continue this arrangement because of a long-standing earlier arrangement between the Post and the competing Baltimore Evening News. For the next five weeks The Herald was then printed nightly on the press 90 miles northeast of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph and transported 100 miles (160 km) back to Baltimore on a special train, provided free of charge by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B. & O. R.R.).[3]
In June 1906, the paper was purchased by two of its major competitors Charles H. Grasty (1863-1924), editor/owner of The Evening News, and Gen. Felix Agnus (1839-1925), longtime owner/publisher since the end of the American Civil War of The Baltimore American. (when as a former Union Army officer, he married the daughter of the previous long owner / publisher).[3] Assets, staff and resources of the Herald were divided between the two publications, which later merged themselves several years later under the ownership of controversial newspaper magnate / titan Frank A. Munsey (1854-1925), who in turn a number of years later sold them to the national newspaper syndicate of press mogul William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), continuing publication for several decades as the Baltimore News-Post on afternoons / evenings, six days a week and the Baltimore American (the oldest paper in town, founded 1773 / reorganized 1799, with the largest circulation in the city, now published only on Sundays), both printed until 1964, when they were both merged as The New American for seven days a week. Hearst's successor corporation / chain closed the daily paper in May 1986,
The Herald's most notable writer and editor was H. L. Mencken, who described his experiences in Newspaper Days (1941), the second volume of his autobiographical trilogy.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "About Baltimore morning herald. (Baltimore [Md.]) 1900-1904". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ "Baltimore Morning Herald". Guide to Special Collections. Maryland State Archives. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ a b c Mencken, H.L. (1941). Newspaper Days. New York, N.Y.: AMS Press. ISBN 9780404201760.
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