San Francisco Evening Bulletin
The San Francisco Evening Bulletin was a newspaper in San Francisco, founded as the Daily Evening Bulletin in 1855 by James King of William.[1] King used the newspaper to crusade against political corruption, and built it into having the highest circulation in the city.[2] He died a year after its founding, assassinated by rival newspaperman and local politician James P. Casey,[3] whom King had exposed as an ex-felon.[4]
Editors
[edit]William Chauncey Bartlett and Samuel Williams were among its editors, with Williams "responsible for dramatic criticism and book reviews".[5] In December 1894, Robert Alexander Crothers[6] purchased the San Francisco Evening Bulletin from the estate of Loring Pickering.[7] Fremont Older became editor-in-chief in 1895, at a time when the newspaper had diminished in influence, and he built it up by again attacking corruption. He was forced to step down in 1918.
Writers
[edit]On 13 June 1913, "Alice Smith", an anonymous sex worker in San Francisco, began sharing stories of her Red Light life in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, with "A voice from the Underworld".[8][9]
Merger
[edit]In 1929 the newspaper was bought by William Randolph Hearst, who merged it with The San Francisco Call.[2]
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ Carter, John Denton (1942). "Before the Telegraph: The News Service of the San Francisco Bulletin, 1855-1861". Pacific Historical Review. 11 (3): 301–317. doi:10.2307/3633538. ISSN 0030-8684. JSTOR 3633538.
- 1 2 Hart, James D. (1987), Companion to California, University of California Press, p. 440, ISBN 9780520055445
- ↑ "Execution of Casey and Cora - San Francisco, 1856". Museum of the City of San Francisco. Retrieved 14 September 2026.
- ↑ Assassination of James King of Wm. by James P. Casey, San Francisco, May 14th, 1856, Virtual Museum of San Francisco, archived from the original on 2021-06-25, retrieved 2017-11-11
- ↑ Smith, Harriet E.; Bucci, Richard; Salamo, Lin, eds. (1990), Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868, University of California Press, p. 209, ISBN 9780520906075
- ↑ "ROBERT CROTHERS, RETIRED PUBLISHER; Owner of The San Francisco Bulletin During Colorful Era Dies in His Home at 91". The New York Times. 8 February 1945. Retrieved 8 May 2026.
- ↑ Millard, Bailey (1924). History of the San Francisco Bay Region: History and Biography. American Historical Society. pp. 203–206.
- ↑ "Today in history: The Tenderloin's (and America's) first-ever sex workers' rights march". Hoodline. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2026.
- ↑ "Alice Smith" (Prostitute) (2016). Anderson, Ivy; Angus, Devon (eds.). Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute. Berkeley: Heyday Books. ISBN 978-1-59714-376-9 – via archive.org.
Originally published in 1913 in the San Francisco Bulletin as a serialized memoir entitled 'A voice from the underworld'
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