[2] Its offices were located at the northwest corner of St. Paul and East Fayette Streets, facing the west end of the recently completed monumental Baltimore City Circuit Courthouses of 1896–1900 (renamed for Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. in 1985).
[3] In June 1906, the paper was purchased by two of its major competitors led by Charles H. Grasty (1863–1924), editor/owner of The Evening News established 1871 as a graphic illustrated later example of the "penny press style of journalism developed first in New York City in the early 1830s.
Hearst and his syndicate continuing publication for several decades combining some features handed down from the brief "spark of light" that was the flurry of scoops and hard news reporting on the scrappy little Morning Herald.
Along with the old Evening News from Grasty and later Munsey's tenure, Hearst made the also recent acquisition in the Twenties of the brief existence of a tabloid style paper from another national syndicate Scripps-Howard's Baltimore Post.
Hearst merging them both as the renamed Baltimore News-Post on afternoons / evenings, six days a week and continuing the historic nameplate of Dobbins / Agnus / Munsey's the Baltimore American (the oldest paper in town, founded 1773 / reorganized 1799, with also the largest circulation in the city, now published only on Sundays), both of these two related papers under Hearst's ownership were printed until 1964, when they were both merged as a combined The New American for seven days a week.
(Henry Louis) Mencken (1880–1956), who described his experiences on the old Herald beat, the disastrous tragedy of the "Great Fire" and his eventual transfer beginning his longtime half-century career with the older highly respected morning "newspaper of record" in town, The Sun, established 1837 by Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806–1888) a.k,a.