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The weakened paper fell in 1895 into the hands of [[Charles Yerkes]], the notorious Chicago streetcar boss, who returned the newspaper to the partisan, subordinate role it had fulfilled in its youth.<ref name="Newspapers">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/889.html|title=Newspapers|work=Encyclopedia of Chicago|accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref> [[George Wheeler Hinman]] bought a controlling interest in the paper in 1906 and sold it to [[H. H. Kohlsaat]] in 1912.<ref>"Kohlsaat Buys Inter Ocean," New York Times, October 10, 1912. Captured July 28, 2010 at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E7DD133CE633A25753C1A9669D946396D6CF.</ref>
The paper stopped publication in 1914.<ref>"Time Regained: The Chicago Inter Ocean Building," ArchitectureChicago Plus, June 10, 2008 at http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/time-regained-chicago-inter-ocean.html, captured 7/28/2010.</ref> Hinman bought back the paper at a receiver's sale in May 1914 (which came about because Kolhsaat had failed to pay the balance owed on a note used to purchase the paper) and immediately sold it to James Keeley, then general manager of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', who also bought the ''[[Chicago Record Herald]]'' at the same time.<ref name="bigchange">(8 May 1914). [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4HpfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yy8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=4871,3143740&dq= Big Change in Chicago Press], ''[[Lewiston Morning Tribune]]''</ref> Readers decided that Keeley's new consolidated newspaper should be named ''The Chicago Herald'', which name it held until it was bought by [[William Randolph Hearst]]'s ''Chicago Examiner'' in 1918.<ref name="herald1">(14 June 1914). [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70D1FF73C5E13738DDDAD0994DE405B848DF1D3 It's the Chicago Herald], '[[The New York Times]]''</ref><ref name="exam1">(1 May 1918). [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60A17F6345B11738DDDA80894DD405B888DF1D3 Chicago Herald Is Sold], ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
==Inter Ocean Newspaper Company==
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