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The Brooklyn Eagle (originally joint name The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat, later The Brooklyn Daily Eagle before shortening title further to Brooklyn Eagle) was an afternoon daily newspaper published in the city and later borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, for 114 years from 1841 to 1955. At one point, the publication was the afternoon paper with the largest daily circulation in the United States. Walt Whitman, the 19th-century poet, was its editor for two years. Other notable editors of the Eagle included Democratic Party political figure Thomas Kinsella, seminal folklorist Charles Montgomery Skinner, St. Clair McKelway (editor-in-chief from 1894 to 1915 and a great-uncle of the New Yorker journalist), Arthur M. Howe (a prominent Canadian American who served as editor-in-chief from 1915 to 1931 and as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board from 1920 to 1946) and Cleveland Rodgers (an authority on Whitman and close friend of Robert Moses who was editor-in-chief from 1931 to 1938 before serving as an influential member of the New York City Planning Commission until 1951). The paper, added "Daily" to its name as The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Kings County Democrat on June 1, 1846. The banner name was shortened on May 14, 1849, to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, but the lower masthead retained the political name until June 8. On September 5, 1938, the name was further shortened, to Brooklyn Eagle, with The Brooklyn Daily Eagle continuing to appear below the masthead of the editorial page, through the end of its original run in 1955. The paper ceased publication in 1955 due to a prolonged strike. It was briefly revived from the bankrupt estate between 1960 and 1963. A new version of the Brooklyn Eagle as a revival of the old newspaper's traditions began publishing in 1996. It has no business relation to the original Eagle (the name having lost trademark protection). The new paper publishes a daily historical/nostalgia feature called "On This Day in History", made up of much material from the original publication. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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- Arrest of a Butcher on Suspicion of Murder
- An Ancient Masonic Body
- The Daughter of a Resident of Farmingdale Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances
- Death of Townsend Burr
- John Howard Kinner (1839-1903) obituary
- The Sloop Emperor
- Deputy Lattin's Bill
- Death of Charles F. Kinner
- Doctors Harrison and Grindle on the Stand
- Investigation by Coroner Rollins
- William Edward Ensko (1888-1918) obituary
- Charles Frederick Webber (1825-1863) death
- Training Flights Scored As Fatal Crash Is Probed
- Cornelius J. Field Dies of Typhoid
- Charles Edward Ensko (1880-1952) obituary
- Jacob Lindauer (1862-1948) obituary
- Alma Feltner (1851-1940) obituary
- Angel Braves Dens of Vice to Rescue Girls
- Richard Barnsley Patterson (1835-1908) obituary
- Hannah Duryea (1832-1920) obituary
- Eighty-One Years Old
- Charles Albert Webber (1860-1937) biography
- John Henry Rogers (1818-1898) obituary
- Captain Henry Oakley (1836-1929) obituary
- Harmanus B. Duryea (1815-1884) obituary
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