in 1919. The Globe
circulation was 179,906. The Globe
was launched on February 1, 1904. It was a wholly revamped one-cent version of the two-cent paper known as the Commercial Advertiser which dated back to 1793. The official name of the new paper was The Globe and Commercial Advertiser
, though it was more typically referred to as the Globe''.
Jason Rogers, grandson of
William Cauldwell, who got his start in the newspaper business at Cauldwell's
Sunday Mercury, helped launch the
Globe as assistant publisher. He became publisher in 1910. In 1912, the
Globe was one of a cooperative of four newspapers, including the
Chicago Daily News,
The Boston Globe, and the
Philadelphia Bulletin, to form the
Associated Newspapers syndicate. The
Globe was known for originating
Robert Ripley's popular feature ''
Ripley's Believe it or Not! in 1918. In 1916, the paper distributed the theatrical documentary Germany on the Firing Line
, under the titles The Globe's War Films
and The Evening Globe's "Germany at the Firing Line"''. One publisher was
Samuel Strauss. Notable contributors included a fledgling
Maxwell Anderson, and
cartoonist Percy Crosby, then a
sports columnist.
Sale Frank Munsey bought the paper in 1923. Munsey, who consolidated a number of papers, then merged the
Globe into the
New York Sun, thus ending the "oldest daily newspaper in the United States" at that time. ==References==