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The Story of
The
Sun
THE STORY OF
The 
Sun.
NEW YORK, 1833–1918
BY
FRANK M. O’BRIEN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EDWARD
PAGE MITCHELL, EDITOR OF “THE
SUN”—ILLUSTRATIONS AND FACSIMILES
NEW YORK: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1918,
By George H. Doran Company
Copyright, 1917, 1918, The Frank A. Munsey Company
Copyright, 1918, The Sun Printing and Publishing Association
Printed in the United States of America
TO
FRANK A. MUNSEY
AN INTRODUCTION
BY THE EDITOR OF THE SUN
It is truer, perhaps, of a newspaper than of mostother complex things in the world that the wholemay be greater than the sum of all its parts. In anydaily paper worth a moment’s consideration the leastfancifully inclined observer will discern an individualityapart from and in a degree independent of thedozens or hundreds or thousands of personal valuesentering at a given time into the composite of its greypages.
This entity of the institution, as