[1] In 1905, investment banker and commodities broker[2] Charles Augustus Otis, Jr. — who the previous year had purchased the Cleveland World — bought both the News & Herald and the Evening Plain Dealer, and merged the trio into the single afternoon daily paper, the World-News, which debuted June 12, 1905.
[1] Hanna remained involved, and in an effort to compete with the more successful Cleveland Press after World War I, he hired Arthur B.
"Mickey" McBride as circulation manager for the Sunday and daily Cleveland News, which in 1926 moved to a new publishing plant at East 18th Street and Superior Avenue.
[1] After barely surviving the beginnings of the Great Depression, the News in 1932 was transferred by Hanna's heirs to the newly formed[3] Forest City Publishing Company, which had also taken control of The Plain Dealer.
As Sterling E. Graham, president of Forest City, characterized his paper, "Ever since its beginning 55 years ago, the News' fate was to be a third newspaper.