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Effective today the proprietorship of this newspaper passes from the present owners to Paul Block. Mr. Block has also bought The Pittsburgh Sun. The new owner will continue the publication of The Pittsburgh Post from the present publishing house.
It is with keen regret that we make this announcement of our retirement from the newspaper publishing field in Pittsburgh. For sixteen years the services these papers have rendered to the economic development and growing civic consciousness of this great city have been to the retiring publishers an ever-present satisfaction. Public approval of the efforts of these newspapers, reflected in a vast increase in both circulation and advertising volume, has been a constant challenge to further labors.
Multiplying demands of other interests, however, now leave us no choice. It would not be possible longer to devote to these newspapers the time and attention requisite to fulfillment of the inescapable obligations of a publisher. There is no course, then, but to relinquish them into other hands.
We bespeak for Mr. Block a cordial reception to the Pittsburgh community. In a long career in the newspaper publishing field and advertising, Mr. Block has proved himself a man of warm human impulses, of high integrity and strong public spirit. In the Toledo "Blade," the Newark "Star-Eagle" and the Duluth "Herald" he is now publishing newspapers of a high repute. What he has done in other cities is the best pledge that he will give to Pittsburgh a paper of which we may all continue to be proud.
It is a matter of special regret that the years of association with the members of the staffs of the two newspapers now come to end. It is our hope that under the guidance of Mr. Block each employe will have a widening field of opportunity for usefulness and for achievement and in consequence thereof enjoy increasing happiness.
ARTHUR E. BRAUN
GEORGE C. MOORE,
Trustees under the will of
T. H. Given, Deceased.
Today the Pittsburgh Post and Gazette Times are published as one consolidated newspaper under the name of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This means that from now on there will be one morning daily week-day newspaper published in Pittsburgh, the same condition as exists in other large cities such as Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis.
It will be our ambition to have the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a newspaper of which everyone may be proud. Its policies will be independent and the newspaper will be of such high character as to insure its welcome into every home.
This consolidation coming almost over night, may mean that a few days will pass before the new Post-Gazette will be as nearly perfect a newspaper as it is our ambition to publish, but the best news services and features formerly published by each of the papers will now appear in the Post-Gazette and I have hopes that before many days have passed the people of Pittsburgh and surrounding territory will heartily endorse Pittsburgh's only morning daily newspaper, the Post-Gazette.
Paul Block
President and Publisher.
