New Orleans Item-Tribune

[1] Subscriptions were six dollars a year, and the paper claimed to have the largest circulation in New Orleans, describing itself as "Impartial, Able, Newsy, and Bright.

[1][3] The papers published a single Sunday edition, the Item-Tribune,[3] beginning December 21, 1924.

[4] Comic-book artist Jack Sparling worked briefly as a gag cartoonist for the paper circa the late 1930s.

[1] In 1949, David Stern III, author of the Francis the Talking Mule books that later became a film series, and the son of prominent Philadelphia publisher J. David Stern, purchased the paper for $2 million.

[7] The paper, which is preserved by the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Library of Congress from its June 11, 1902, issue through its last, September 14, 1958, was published daily until dropping the Saturday edition beginning December 17, 1950.