[8] From 1890 to its closure in 1914 the paper was published under the title The Levant Herald and Eastern Express.
[9] Edgar Whitaker was one of the editors of the paper which covered all significant events of the period, including Ottoman-Russian relations, the Bulgarian issue, tensions in the Balkans and the Russo-Ottoman War.
[10] It was one of the supporters of Ottoman Sultan Murad V[7] and received financial aid from Khedive Ismail of Egypt in the 1870s.
[7] Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad includes references to Levant Herald in Chapter 34.
[8] In the book it is stated that due to its frequent reports about the rebels in Crete the paper was often censored by the Ottoman authorities in the late 1860s.