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The Corpus Christi Caller-Times |
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820 Lower North Broadway, Corpus Christi,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
27° 47' 55.87191999996",
-97° 23' 43.73478999996"
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Texas State
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The first issue of the Corpus Christi Caller was published on January 21, 1883. It was established by Eli Merriman, owner of the Corpus Christi Free Press, Ed Williams, co-owner of the Semi-Weekly Ledger, and W.P. Caruthers, who is credited with naming the Caller. One of the original stockholders was King Ranch founder Captain Richard King. W.E. Pope, who was to represent Corpus Christi in the state legislature for many years, purchased the town's Daily Democrat in 1917 and renamed it the Times. Eleven years later he sold it to Houston Harte of San Angelo and Bernard Hanks of Abilene, owners of several Texas newspapers. In 1929 the Caller was purchased by the Harte-Hanks group and the two papers were combined as the Corpus Christi Caller-Times with Grady Kinsolving as publisher. The Caller-Times has outlasted over two dozen newspapers that have served the city since the first two, the Gazette and the Star, were published in the 1840s. The Caller and the Times were in two separate locations until operations were consolidated at a third site in 1929. The newspapers have been published at the present location since 1935. (1983)
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times Historical Marker Location Map, Texas
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