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1836 | The Philadelphia Public Ledger. Founded as the city's first penny paper and edited by W. H. Swain, this newspaper advocated independent voting and a free press, voiced its opposition to the Bank of the United States, and after its sale to G. W. Childs (1864) became well known for its carefully substantiated attacks on war profiteering, monopolies, and debased currency and its editorials on political and moral corruption. The Philadelphia Inquirer took over the paper in 1934, renaming it the Evening Public Ledger. It ceased publication in 1942. |
