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This chronology is indicative only.

Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline on this site.

1833 New York Sun founded by Benjamin Day

1836 Baltimore Sun founded by AS Abell

1835 New York Herald founded

1836 New York Evening Express founded

1873 Baltimore News founded

1854 New York Press founded by Frank Marten

1869 New York Evening Mail founded

1879 Evening Mail absorbs New York Evening Express

1883 Munsey launches Golden Argosy

1888 Golden Argosy becomes Argosy

1889 Munsey launches Munsey's Magazine

1891 buys New York Star, renamed New York Daily Continent

1891 buys New York Daily News

1894 Daily News closes

1896 Munsey incorporates The Mohican Stores, Inc.

1905 All-Story Magazine founded

1906 The Scrap Book founded

1907 The Ocean founded

1908 The Ocean becomes The Live Wire

1908 launches The Cavalier

1908 Munsey buys Baltimore News for US$1m from Charles Grasty

1912 The Cavalier absorbs The Scrap Book

1912 buys New York Press from Henry Einstein

1914 Cavalier Weekly amalgamated with All-Story Weekly as All-Story-Cavalier Weekly

1916 buys New York Sun and Evening Sun

1920 Munsey buys New York Herald, Paris Herald and New York Evening Telegram from Bennett estate for US$4m

1920 merges Herald with New York Sun

1922 sells New York Herald and New York Evening Telegram to Ogden Reid

1923 buys New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser

1923 evening and morning Baltimore News sold to Hearst

1924 closes Philadelphia Evening Times

1924 buys New York Globe

1927 Scripps Howard buys NY Evening Telegram from Reid

1942 Argosy renamed New Argosy

1942 Popular Publications buys Munsey & Co

1972 Popular Publications imprints acquired by Joel Frieman's Blazing Publications, Inc. (later Argosy Communications, Inc.)

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