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Cover of The San Francisco Call, 21 December 1902
The San Francisco Call was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California. Because of a succession of mergers with other newspapers, the paper variously came to be called The San Francisco Call & Post, the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, and the News-Call Bulletin before finally merging with the San Francisco Examiner and losing "news," "call," and "bulletin."
Contents
History
Between December 1856 to March 1895 The San Francisco Call was named The Morning Call, but its name was changed when it was purchased by John D. Spreckels. In the period from 1863 to 1864 Mark Twain worked as one of the paper's writers.
In 1913 M. H. de Young, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, purchased the paper and sold it to William Randolph Hearst who brought in editor Fremont Older, former Editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. In December of that year (1913), Hearst merged The San Francisco Call with the Evening Post and the papers became The San Francisco Call & Post.
Its most famous editor, crusading journalist Fremont Older agitated for years against civic corruption and colluded with wealthy San Franciscan sugar baron Rudolph Spreckels to bring down the Mayor, Eugene Schmitz and political boss, Abe Ruef.
On 29 August 1929, the newspaper name was changed again to the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, when the San Francisco Call & Post merged with the San Francisco Bulletin. In 1959 the San Francisco Call-Bulletin merged with Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News becoming the News-Call Bulletin. In 1965 the paper merged with the San Francisco Examiner.
Notable journalists
Bulletin
- William Brown Meloney (1878–1925)
Call
- Frances Fuller Victor
Call-Bulletin
See also
References
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External links
- San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Newspaper Photograph Archive, ca. 1915-1965, The Bancroft Library
- Image of the San Francisco Call
- Chronology of San Francisco newspapers mirror from Internet Archive as of 2007-08-07
- History of the San Francisco Call from the Library of Congress Chronicling America Project
- Calendar of Digitized Images from libraries, at the Library of Congress Chronicling America Project
- Browse the January 1, 1898 newspaper Image provided by: University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA through the Library of Congress Chronicling America Project
Categories:- Newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area
- History of the American West
- History of California
- Defunct newspapers of California
- San Francisco, California stubs
- Californian newspaper stubs
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