![]() In a letter to readers, Gannett wrote, "The American people think for themselves. Under Gannett's ownership, the traditionally pro-Republican newspaper adopted a balanced editorial approach during the 1922 gubernatorial campaign, the newspaper published Democratic candidate William Robinson Pattangall's criticism of the Republican incumbent, Governor Percival Baxter. The Press Herald 's circulation skyrocketed in the first year of Gannett's ownership, when the paper sold for 2 cents circulation went from a little over 18,000 to nearly 29,000. The first edition of the Portland Press Herald was published in November 21, 1921. Gannett, who had bought the Herald earlier the same year. It was merged with the Portland Herald in 1921 to form the Portland Press Herald in a sale of the Press from then U.S. Cleaves, and gubernatorial candidate Joseph Homan Manley, who the paper had previously opposed. In 1904 the paper was bought by a syndicate of Maine Republicans, including Henry B. The paper quickly gained the largest circulation in Portland, and was one of five daily newspapers in the city to survive to the 20th century. On the morning of Friday, July 6, the Portland Daily Press published a double-sided handbill about the fire. Its first issue, published June 23, 1862, announced strong support for Abraham Lincoln and condemned slavery as "the foulest blot upon our national character." Its offices, along with the offices of all the newspapers in the city, were destroyed on Jin the Great Fire of 1866. The Portland Daily Press was founded in June 1862 by J. Donald Sussman/Maine Values LLC ownership ![]()
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