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54-531: Since 1909, the Anna Louise Inn has provided safe and affordable housing for single women. It offers its residents a positive and supportive community to enable their success. The majority of residents have complex and long-term health conditions (such as mental illness, drug abuse, physical disabilities, or other medical conditions), With 85 single-occupancy apartments, each unit features a full kitchen, bedroom, furniture and bathroom. The Anna Louise Inn

108-608: A Weekender edition on Saturday mornings. In keeping with Scripps tradition, the Post did not publish on Sundays for most of its history. However, it did publish a Sunday edition from November 30, 1924, to December 18, 1932. The Post published on schedule from its founding as The Penny Paper in 1881 until 1967. From October 30 to November 2, 1967, 300 Newspaper Guild members struck along with Pressmen and Stereotypers, while Printers were locked out. The Cincinnati Post began on January 3, 1881, as The Penny Paper , published from

162-628: A campaign against Thomas C. Campbell , a notorious jury fixer. Campbell responded by suing the paper for libel in front of a partially fixed jury. Amid threats from the Cox machine, the Post hired bodyguards for its editors and managers. Boss Campbell's regime ended with the courthouse riots of 1884 . In 1889, the Post put the Cincinnati Telegram , an afternoon competitor once run by Campbell, out of business by secretly financing its unsuccessful move to morning publication. In 1904 and 1905,

216-559: A controlling interest. It was the first paper that he had ever owned. It became The Evening Post on October 11, 1883 – though the price would remain at one penny until 1918. On September 2, 1890, it was finally renamed The Cincinnati Post . On September 15, a Kentucky edition debuted with coverage of Covington , Newport , Bellevue , Dayton , and Ludlow by a dedicated staff in Covington. One year later, Scripps renamed it The Kentucky Post and began distributing it as

270-580: A full-fledged publication wrapped around the Cincinnati paper at no additional charge. The Kentucky Post soon put its sole rival, The Commonwealth , out of business. By the time the local typographical union debuted its own penny paper, the News , in 1894, the Post had added such thorough coverage of labor relations that the News folded within two months. In 1894, E. W. Scripps and his half-brother, George H. Scripps, organized their various papers into

324-634: A lifetime ban from baseball in 1912, Taft sold the Phillies to William H. Locke . In 1914, Murphy sold his stock in the Cubs to Taft, who named Charles H. Thomas , the secretary under Murphy, as the new club president. Taft sold the Cubs to Charles Weeghman , with some financial backing from William Wrigley Jr. , after the 1915 season. In 1916, Taft sold his interest in West Side Park and National League Park to Murphy. On December 4, 1873, Taft

378-459: A more memorable domain, Cincinnati.com , on November 1, 1998. The new brand encompassed about 300 local commercial sites and some community organizations. The day after the Post 's closure, Scripps launched KYPost.com as a Northern Kentucky news website to compete with Enquirer sister site NKY.com. A dedicated staff embedded in WCPO-TV 's newsroom supplemented content from WCPO.com. In 2009,

432-467: A scheme to extend the franchises of the local utilities and sided with striking streetcar workers. Still, disappointed that the Post 's advertising business always pressured the paper to moderate its investigative reporting, E. W. Scripps founded the Chicago Day Book in 1911 as an experimental daily paper entirely devoid of advertising. The Day Book folded in 1917. In 1924, the Post

486-579: A second floor office at Vine and Longworth streets. The publishers, Walter E. Wellman and his brother Frank, hoped to emulate the success of the Cleveland Penny Press . By March, they ran out of funds and took an investment from James E. Scripps and half-brother Edward Willis Scripps , who ran the Penny Press . They used the funds to purchase a press and move the paper to larger facility on Home Street. In October, Walter Wellman

540-652: A supporter of the Cincinnati native, despite the Taft family owning the Times-Star and generally supporting the Cox machine. McRae secured the help of Times-Star editor Charles Phelps Taft in publicizing the editorial. The Post retracted its endorsement just before the 1908 election and by 1910 had resumed its attacks on President Taft and the Republican Party. The Post 's frequent reports of collusion would at times decimate advertising revenue. However,

594-426: A traditional 12 + 5 ⁄ 16 -inch-wide (313 mm) broadsheet format to an 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 -inch-wide (300 mm) format similar to Berliner . They also began publishing in color every day of the week. Gannett promoted the narrower format as being "easier to handle, hold, and read" but also cited reduced newsprint costs. In a pattern seen throughout the industry, the Post declined severely during

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648-721: The Cincinnati Times-Star and owned both the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs baseball teams. From 1895 to 1897, he served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives . Taft was born on December 21, 1843, in Cincinnati, Ohio . He was the eldest child born to Fanny Phelps (1823-1852) and Alphonso Taft (1810–1891). His father served as the 34th United States Attorney General and 31st United States Secretary of War , both under President Ulysses S. Grant . Among his younger half-brothers

702-606: The Cincinnati Times-Star , which would later be bought by the Cincinnati Post . This began the Taft media empire which was his main claim to fame. In 1895, he went to Congress as a Republican succeeding Bellamy Storer , but served only two years from March 4, 1895, until March 3, 1897. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress and his seat was taken by William B. Shattuc . After retiring from Congress, he returned to

756-493: The C incinnati Po st", and the station switched to a news radio format. Initially, the station's main studios were located in David Sinton 's hotel, while news bulletins originated from a broom closet adjacent to the Post city room. WCPO-TV signed on the air on July 26, 1949. By the late 1940s, sales of The Cincinnati Enquirer , Cincinnati's remaining morning daily, had increased dramatically, fueled in part by

810-594: The Enquirer for neglecting its partner, citing empty or outdated newsboxes and uncooperative subscription agents. A 2009 study attempted to measure the impact of the Post 's closure on the political process in Northern Kentucky, a traditional stronghold for the paper. It concluded that the closure caused an initial short-term decline in political competition and voter turnout, despite the Post having low circulation in its final years. On November 1, 1996,

864-573: The Enquirer limiting distribution to certain parts of three Northern Kentucky counties. By 2007, the paper employed only 52 newsroom staff, while its circulation had declined to 27,000, an estimated four percent of local households. On July 17, parent company E. W. Scripps confirmed that both The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post would cease publication on the day of the JOA's expiration. The Post published its final print edition on December 31, 2007. The commemorative "Farewell Edition" led with

918-489: The Enquirer than with the Post . In January 2004, the Enquirer informed the Post of its intention to let the JOA expire on December 31, 2007. That spring, the Post ended distribution in the northern suburbs in Butler and Warren counties to concentrate on Hamilton County and its Northern Kentucky edition. Also that year, political cartoonist Jeff Stahler left the Post for The Columbus Dispatch . In June 2005,

972-490: The Post backed the nonpartisan movement as it expanded to the Hamilton County government. In 1947, the Post successfully defended the proportional representation system against a campaign by Charles P. Taft to repeal it. On October 1, 1935, the Post 's corporate parent, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, entered the radio business by purchasing AM station WFBE 1230. The callsign was changed to WCPO , for "The Voice of

1026-407: The Post by its employees instead of signing the JOA. Post coverage of the proceedings was limited to a single Saturday article, in contrast to multiple reports published in the Enquirer . The Enquirer – Post agreement was approved on November 26, 1979, taking effect after negotiations and legal battles with unions, including with 131 Post printers who had been guaranteed jobs for life. As

1080-610: The Post closed its Kentucky newsroom and announced early retirement offers to employees in advance of its probable closure. These changes resulted in profits of $ 23.5 million in 2005 and $ 20.7 million the following year. In 2006, the Post ended its 115-year practice of bundling the Cincinnati Post inside the Kentucky Post . By then, the Kentucky paper had eclipsed its Cincinnati counterpart in circulation, despite

1134-523: The Post considered itself politically independent, it historically tended to support progressive politicians relative to the Times-Star and Enquirer . The Post 's editorial position became uniformly conservative in the years following its merger with the Times-Star , according to Stevens (1969). By the early 1990s, the paper's political stance had become "a grumpily conservative sigh of resentment" according to journalist William Greider . The Post published regular editions on weekday afternoons and

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1188-533: The Post directed its fire against Campbell's protégé, George B. Cox , exposing graft and lampooning his affiliates with the help of cartoonist Homer Davenport . The Post 's afternoon competitor, the Taft -owned Times-Star , strongly supported Boss Cox. In 1904, at President Theodore Roosevelt 's suggestion, the Post became the first newspaper in the country to endorse William Howard Taft for president in 1908. Corporate president Milton A. McRae had long been

1242-442: The Post launched its website, @The Post . Due to a joint operating agreement with the Enquirer , it launched concurrently with the Enquirer 's site, Enquirer.com . A shared website, GoCincinnati! , displayed classified advertising and offered dial-up Internet access subscriptions. Local access numbers were available in cities throughout the country through a network of Gannett publications. Both papers' home pages moved to

1296-522: The Scripps National Spelling Bee . The Post came to an end due to a number of factors, including the end of the joint operating agreement, a 75% decrease in readership, and decreasing advertising revenues. By the paper's closing, its circulation had fallen to about 25,000 on weekdays and 34,000 on Saturdays, versus the Enquirer 's 195,000 on weekdays and Saturdays and 280,000 on Sundays. However, some Post employees faulted

1350-649: The Taft family and Sylvia ( née Howard) Taft. He was the uncle of Robert Alphonso Taft and Charles Phelps Taft II , and the granduncle of Robert Taft Jr. He was educated at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and graduated from Yale University in 1864, and from Columbia University 's law department in 1866. In 1867, he received another degree from the University of Heidelberg . Following his graduation from Columbia Law School, he

1404-556: The Times-Star , merging the afternoon paper with the Post . Only three Times-Star reporters were retained. The combined paper operated out of the Cincinnati Times-Star Building , noted for its Art Deco architecture. The paper would be published under the name The Cincinnati Post and Times-Star until December 31, 1974, when it reverted to The Cincinnati Post . Post circulation peaked in 1961. Combined Cincinnati Post and Kentucky Post circulation

1458-416: The 30-year term of the JOA, particularly during the 1980s. In 1977, when the agreement was announced, the Post had a daily circulation of 195,000, more than the Enquirer , but by September 2003, the Post 's daily circulation had fallen to 42,219, or 23% of the Enquirer 's 182,176. By this time, the Post had shifted its focus to the Kentucky edition, and sister station WCPO-TV more often partnered with

1512-707: The Justice Department for an antitrust exemption under the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 . This was the second JOA application under the Newspaper Preservation Act; the first, involving the Anchorage Daily News and Anchorage Times , was summarily approved but already seen as a failure. At Justice Department hearings, the Post claimed to be the brink of financial failure, with losses over

1566-548: The Scripps family owned all of Cincinnati's dailies, along with WCPO-AM, WCPO-FM , and WCPO-TV, which consistently led local television ratings with Al Schottelkotte 's news reports. The E. W. Scripps Company operated the Enquirer at arm's length, even omitting the Scripps lighthouse logo from the Enquirer 's nameplate. Nevertheless, the United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against

1620-581: The West in 1908. He owned at least two works each of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , Jean-François Millet and Ernest Meissonier , many pieces of fine Chinese porcelain, Portrait of a Man Rising from His Chair by Rembrandt , The Tompkinson Boys by Thomas Gainsborough , and The Cobbler's Apprentice by Frank Duveneck , as well as paintings by Anthony van Dyck , Frans Hals , Jan Steen , Meindert Hobbema , Francisco Goya , Joshua Reynolds and Rousseau . Cincinnati Post The Cincinnati Post

1674-436: The city and 6,000 in the countryside, before countryside distribution was discontinued to save money. With an editorial staff that leaned Republican and included a former minister, The Penny Paper was seen as "the spokesman and the organ of the religious element of the community", according to Scripps. When in 1882 the "Boy Preacher" Rev. Thomas Harrison held 13 weeks of camp meetings in Cincinnati, "the boy preacher and

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1728-463: The company in 1964. In 1968, Scripps entered into a consent decree to sell the Enquirer . It was sold to Carl Lindner, Jr. 's American Financial Corporation on February 20, 1971. On September 22, 1977, the Post signed a joint operating agreement (JOA) with The Cincinnati Enquirer . For two years, the Post had secretly negotiated the terms of the JOA with the Enquirer while securing concessions from labor unions. The two papers petitioned

1782-555: The first modern newspaper chain. In July 1895, it was named the Scripps-McRae League in recognition of Post general manager Milton A. McRae , a longtime partner. By 1903, the Post boasted of leading all Cincinnati dailies with a sworn daily average circulation of 146,884. From its founding to 1930, the Post crusaded against bossism , aligning with the Democratic Party locally. In 1883, it launched

1836-419: The headline " -30- ", meaning "the end" in newsroom jargon. About 30 Enquirer employees assigned to Post operations lost their jobs. At a farewell party in the Post newsroom, a band played for the first time the "Cincinnati Post March", which was composed by John N. Klohr and Frank Simon in 1931 for the paper's 50th anniversary. WCPO-TV replaced the Post as sponsor of the local qualification rounds of

1890-409: The little Penny [Paper] were vying with each other and cooperating with each other in the way of saving souls." The paper's circulation quickly quadrupled. On February 11, 1883, the paper was given a more distinctive name, The Penny Post , because "Penny Paper" was "more of a description of the paper than a name". In July, the Scripps family assumed full ownership of the company, with E. W. having

1944-420: The more financially sound paper, the Enquirer received an 80% stake in the business and handled all business functions of both papers, including printing, distribution, and selling advertising. The Post forwent Sunday publishing, a major advantage the Enquirer had over the Post . The Post eliminated 500 of 600 jobs as a result of the agreement. On April 10, 2000, the Enquirer and Post downsized from

1998-528: The newspaper business. Taft was a presidential elector in the 1904 presidential election . In 1905, Taft became a minority owner of the Chicago Cubs when Charles Murphy purchased the club. In 1909, Taft and Murphy funded Horace Fogel 's purchase of the Philadelphia Phillies . The pair publicly denied that they had purchased a second club, but did acknowledge that Taft was the owner of Philadelphia's National League Park . After Fogel received

2052-464: The newspaper industry; however, they eventually scrapped the idea for fear that the Enquirer would sue them for any losses. Another factor was the difficulty of establishing a Sunday carrier system. On April 26, 1956, Scripps-Howard purchased a 36.5% controlling interest in the Enquirer for $ 4,059,000, beating out The Times-Star Company's $ 2,380,051 and Tribune Publishing 's $ 15 per share, or $ 2,238,000. Then, on July 20, 1958, Scripps also acquired

2106-429: The paper always turned a profit because the exposés were immensely popular with readers. The Post 's role in a 1905 Democratic mayoral victory led some advertisers to boycott the paper for up to a decade, and its valuation fell by half. The paper habitually refused advertisements attacking labor unions, such as those by Postum Cereals in 1905. In 1914, the Post weathered a severe drop in advertising after it exposed

2160-407: The previous six years totaling $ 12 million. Scripps-Howard argued that the JOA would preserve a second editorial voice in Cincinnati, a "no-growth market". However, Post employees and suburban newspaper publishers accused the Post of producing artificial losses in an attempt to secure expected profits from a JOA. Scripps-Howard rejected an informal offer by Larry Flynt to help fund a takeover of

2214-481: The success of its Sunday morning monopoly; meanwhile, the Post and especially The Cincinnati Times-Star faced a declining afternoon market. In 1948 and 1949, lawyers for Scripps-Howard and The Times-Star Company discussed the possibility of jointly publishing a Sunday morning edition called the Times-Post . The two companies determined that they would be safe from Sherman Act investigations, which were rare in

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2268-533: Was William Howard Taft (1857–1930), the 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States , and Horace Dutton Taft (1861–1943), the founder of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut , to which he donated $ 150,000 in 1929. His maternal grandfather was Judge Charles Phelps, of Townshend, Vermont and his paternal grandparents were Peter Rawson Taft (1785–1867) of

2322-425: Was 275,000, including nearly 60,000 for the Kentucky edition alone. In 1968, the Post had 50,000 more daily subscriptions than the Enquirer . In the 1960s, the Kentucky Post dominated the newspaper market in 12 Kentucky counties: Bracken , Boone , Campbell , Carroll , Gallatin , Grant , Harrison , Kenton , Mason , Owen , Pendleton , and Robertson . With the Times-Star and Enquirer acquisitions,

2376-592: Was admitted to the bar and became a partner in the law firm of Sage, Haacke & Taft. He remained with the firm until he left to study abroad in Germany and France. After returning from Germany, he resumed the practice of law in 1869 with General Edward F. Noyes , who later served as U.S. Minister to France and the 30th Governor of Ohio , at which point Taft was elected to the Ohio State Legislature . Ten years later in 1879, he became editor of

2430-418: Was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Cincinnati , Ohio , United States. In Northern Kentucky , it was bundled inside a local edition called The Kentucky Post . The Post was a founding publication and onetime flagship of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, a division of the E. W. Scripps Company . For much of its history, the Post was the most widely read paper in the Cincinnati market. Its readership

2484-475: Was concentrated on the West Side of Cincinnati, as well as in Northern Kentucky, where it was considered the newspaper of record . The Post began publishing in 1881 and launched its Northern Kentucky edition in 1890. It acquired The Cincinnati Times-Star in 1958. The Post ceased publication at the end of 2007, after 30 years in a joint operating agreement with The Cincinnati Enquirer . The Post

2538-526: Was established in the spring of 1909, as a home for working young women. The Charles P. Taft family were the principal benefactors of the institution, which stood across the street from their home (now the Taft Museum of Art ). They named the Anna Louise Inn after their daughter. The present location of the home is 2401 Reading Rd. in Mount Auburn, Cincinnati . For over a century, Anna Louise Inn

2592-625: Was framed for blackmail in retaliation for exposés of policy racketeers and the police. Wellman fled to Kentucky, where he was unlikely to face extradition, and left the Scripps brothers in charge of operations at "the blackmailing sheet". The Cincinnati Enquirer called The Penny Paper "a fair success" in its first year, estimating the upstart's circulation at about 6,000, fifth in a market served by seven papers in English and five in German. E. W. Scripps estimated daily circulation at 7,000 in

2646-526: Was known throughout its history for investigative journalism and focus on local coverage, characteristics common to Scripps papers. As one of the first successful penny presses outside the East Coast, the Post was written primarily for blue collar laborers who had no time to read a newspaper in the morning. Its articles were written to be easily readable. In its heyday, the paper consistently championed good governance and labor rights . Though

2700-581: Was located at downtown Cincinnati, within the Lytle Park Historic District . The new Anna Louise Inn in Mount Auburn, with 85 units, opened its doors in 2015. 39°06′04″N 84°30′12″W  /  39.101121°N 84.503395°W  / 39.101121; -84.503395 Charles P. Taft Charles Phelps Taft (December 21, 1843 – December 31, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician who served as editor of

2754-454: Was married to Anna Sinton (1850-1931), who was an heiress to a pig iron fortune, left by her father David Sinton . Together with her husband she began an art collection which she opened to the public from their home. Today their former home is the Taft Museum of Art . Taft died on December 31, 1929, in Cincinnati, Ohio , where he was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery . He left an estate valued at $ 6,367,374. Through his daughter Jane, he

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2808-555: Was named after him. Following his death, Annie (Anna) Sinton Taft donated $ 5 million to the University of Cincinnati in 1930 and established a memorial fund after his name. This fund was transformed in 2005 into the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. The city of Taft, Texas was named after him in 1904. His art collection was said to be the most valuable in

2862-492: Was the grandfather of First World War flying ace David Sinton Ingalls (1899–1985), who married Louise Hale Harkness, daughter of William L. Harkness and granddaughter of Daniel M. Harkness , who was instrumental in the formation of Standard Oil . He was also the grandfather of Anne Taft Ingalls, who married Rupert E. L. Warburton, "a scion of one of England's oldest families," in 1929. His nephew, Charles Phelps Taft II who served as Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1955 to 1957

2916-542: Was the only Cincinnati daily that endorsed a new municipal charter based on the council–manager system, nonpartisan elections, and proportional representation . The enactment of this charter the following year propelled the Charter Committee to power and led to the demise of political machines in Cincinnati, ultimately dooming the Cincinnati Subway that was seen as a product of bossism. In 1936,

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