The ''Nashville Daily American'', also published as the ''Daily American'' and ''Nashville American'', (–1910) was a newspaper in

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. It sponsored the

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baseball team. It was acquired by ''

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'' in 1911. Arthur St. Clair Colyar served as editor. He was one of those featured on trading cards as part of an Allen & Ginter cigarette advertising depicting American newspaper editors.

History

The paper was preceded by the ''Nashville Union'' and ''Nashville American'',

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-aligned publications. They combined to form the ''Nashville Union and American''. Editor George G. Poindexter and Allen A. Hall of the '' Nashville Daily News'' had a rivalry. After Poindexter accused Hall of being an abolitionist the heat and intensity increased and threats were exchanged. When Poindexter went to Hall's office he was shot and killed. Feuding at Tennessee newspapers was lampooned in

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's short story "Journalism in Tennessee", based on his experiences as a printer and journalist in Tennessee in the 1850s. The paper suspended publication during the American Civil War and resumed in 1865 and went through a series of name changes, publishing regimes, and mergers. In 1888, the ''Nashville Daily American'' was purchased by

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s Duncan Cooper, Spurrell Hill, and John Childress. It was changed to a "tariff reform journal" with Cooper acting as editor-in-chief. Milton B. Ochs, managing editor of the ''

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'' and Thomas R. Preston, a banker, bought the ''Nashville American'' around February 1909. Control of the paper transferred to Ochs on March 10, 1909. Around June 1910, the paper published a 180-page special edition of the newspaper to celebrate the ''Nashville Americans 98th year anniversary. The ''New York Times'' reported on the special issue, commenting, "...the magnitude of The American's achievement can be computed, and to some degree realized, even by those who know nothing about the mechanical difficulties that had to be overcome in producing and distributing a paper of such enormous size". Ochs managed the paper for 18 months, and after Ochs' resignation as publisher, the paper was sold again; In 1910, the ''Nashville American'' was sold to Luke Lea and others, who controlled and published the ''

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'', with the plan to merge the two newspapers.

References

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