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The ''Chicago Record-Herald'' was a
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published in Chicago,
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from 1901 until 1914. It was the successor to the '' Chicago Morning Herald,'' the ''
Chicago Times Herald The ''Chicago Times'' was a newspaper in Chicago from 1854 to 1895, when it merged with the ''Chicago Herald'', to become the ''Chicago Times-Herald''. The ''Times-Herald'' effectively disappeared in 1901 when it merged with the ''Chicago Record' ...
'' and the ''Chicago Record''. H. H. Kohlsaat, owner of the ''Times-Herald'', bought the ''Chicago Record'' from
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publisher Victor F. Lawson in 1901 and merged it with the ''Times-Herald'' to form the ''Record-Herald''. Frank B. Noyes became part-owner of the new newspaper at the time and served as publisher, with Kohlsaat as editor. Kohlsaat retired from the paper in 1902, but re-purchased it from Noyes in 1910 to serve as editor and publisher. In May 1914, the circulation of the ''Chicago Record-Herald'' was reported to be 149,776 daily and 209,105 on Sunday.(5 May 1914)
May Get Record-Herald
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It was then acquired by
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, then general manager of the '' Chicago Tribune'', who also bought the ''
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'' out of receivership at the same time.(8 May 1914)
Big Change in Chicago Press
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Readers decided that Keeley's new consolidated newspaper should be named ''The Chicago Herald'', which name it held until it was bought by
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's ''Chicago Examiner'' in 1918,(14 June 1914)
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(1 May 1918)
Chicago Herald Is Sold
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and named the ''
Chicago Herald and Examiner The ''Chicago American'' was an afternoon newspaper published in Chicago, under various names until its dissolution in 1974. History The paper's first edition came out on July 4, 1900, as '' Hearst's Chicago American''. It became the ''Morning ...
''.Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Chicago Herald and Examiner


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