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The Telegraph is an American daily newspaper published seven days a week in Alton, Illinois, serving the St. Louis Metro-East region. It was owned by Civitas Media, based in Davidson, North Carolina, a subsidiary of Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management, which owned about 100 daily and weekly newspapers across 12 states but sold The Telegraph to Hearst Corp. in 2017.
Trimpe was born June 10, 1906, to Carl and Katherine (Leithoff) Trimpe. [5] He was raised in Mason County, Illinois. [5] He earned a bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois college in 1942, [4] a master’s degree from the University of Illinois in 1945, [4] and worked towards a doctorate degree at both the University of Colorado [6] and Southern Illinois University.
When he was seven years old, his father died. At the age of twelve, Beall was hired as an office boy and spent four years learning the printers’ trade at the local paper, the Alton Daily Telegraph. As a teenager, he enlisted in the army on May 12, 1864 as a member of Company D. One Hundred and Thirty-Third Illinois Infantry. [2]
Thomas Dimmock (1830-1909) was an American journalist, editorial writer, book reviewer, critic and lecturer. [1] He was responsible for restoring the Alton, Illinois, grave of free-press martyr Elijah Parish Lovejoy, who was shot and killed by a pro-slavery mob in 1837.
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