The New York Globe

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The New York Globe was the name of at least two New York City newspapers.

The first, an African-American newspaper, was published weekly from at least 1880 to November 8, 1884. Co-founded by editor Timothy Thomas Fortune, a former slave,[1] it became The [New York] Freeman from November 22, 1884 to October 8, 1887, published six times weekly. It then became the weekly New York Age from October 15, 1887 to February 27, 1960. From 1953 to 1957, it was titled New York Age Defender.

The second New York Globe, also called The New York Evening Globe, was a daily newspaper 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".[2] One publisher was Samuel Strauss.[3] Notable contributors included a fledgling Maxwell Anderson,[4] and cartoonist Percy Crosby, then a sports columnist.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ H-Net.com: Review of Quigley, David. Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004) ISBN 978-0-8090-8513-2
  2. ^ The Globe's War Films, review by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide, via The New York Times
  3. ^ The New York Times: "David Kapel Wed To Miss Combier" (May 6, 1984)
  4. ^ eNotes.com: Maxwell Anderson

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