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Once he became interested in newspapers, Munsey's visibility increased, both locally and nationally. Over a 24-year period he bought, operated and/or sold as many as 17 papers. During a period in which the total number of
American newspapers was in decline, Munsey became known for merging many of his
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profitable, and boosted circulation to 115,000 in May of that year. The improvement was temporary; Munsey later realized that magazines for children were uninteresting to advertisers as children had no buying power, and the subscriptions dropped as the children grew up. He shortened the title to
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Augusta for New York in 1882. There he discovered that the cost estimates he had made were
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1382:. Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press.
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1536:The Founding of the Munsey Publishing-House
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1487:A History of American Magazines: 1885–1905
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959:Britt (1972), pp. 43-44, 52-54.
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281:Railroad Man's Magazine
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