A Los Angeles Times History Lesson
From Newseum, a reminder that front-page ads like the L.A. Times-American Airlines are centuries-old.
Several decades before the Los Angeles Times was founded in 1881, there was The Neosho Herald in Neosho, Mo. That is, until 1861, when Confederates seized Archibald M. Sevier’s printing press, took it to Arkansas and destroyed it.
As the Civil War raged, Sevier restarted his newspaper under a different name (The Neosho Times) after serving in the Federal Army. And in April, 1882, thanks to department store McElhany & Bro., the front page looked like this:
Notice that there is no portion of the Jesse James article on the front page.
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