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31-542: Kojo may refer to: King Kojo , a novel by Ruth Plumly Thompson KOJO (company) , Australian entertainment company which supported the Adelaide Film Festival's Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative KOJO (FM) , a radio station (91.1 FM) licensed to Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States Kojo (Iraq) , Yazidi village near Sinjar in northern Iraq Kojo (programming language) Kojo, North Korea, location of

62-779: A highway airstrip in North Korea Kojo, the main village of Koijärvi , Finland People [ edit ] Kojo (maroon) (c. 1680–1744), a Jamaican maroon also known as Cudjoe Kojo (singer) (born 1953), singer who entered for Finland in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest Kojo Annan (born 1973), the son of ex-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Kojo Laing (1946–2017), Ghanaian novelist and poet Kojo Mensah (born 1985), Ghanaian basketball player Kojo Nnamdi (born 1945), American radio show host Edward Kojo Duncan-Williams (born 1910), Ghanaian politician Boris Kodjoe (born 1973), Austrian-American actor Nikola Kojo (born 1967), Serbian actor Topics referred to by

93-591: A lifelong children's writer, Thompson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . While in high school she sold her first fairy tale to St. Nicholas Magazine to which she continued contributing, along with The Smart Set . In 1914 she took a job with the Philadelphia Public Ledger , writing a weekly children's column for the newspaper. She had already published her first children's book, The Perhappsy Chaps , and her second, The Princess of Cozytown ,

124-477: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ruth Plumly Thompson Ruth Plumly Thompson (27 July 1891 – 6 April 1976) was an American writer of children's stories, best known for writing many novels placed in Oz , the fictional land of L. Frank Baum 's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. An avid reader of Baum's books and

155-644: The Bulletin in 1900, grew to nearly three-fourths of its pages in 1920. At the same time, the circulation at the Public Ledger stagnated. In 1924, Curtis built a new Public Ledger Building on the same site as its prior building, which was designed by Horace Trumbauer and built in Georgian Revival style. Throughout the 1920s and prior to the Great Depression , the Public Ledger was profitable. But with

186-594: The Evening Public Ledger , a bolder paper designed to appeal to a broader public. The Public Ledger suffered by competition from The Evening Bulletin , an ascendant newspaper published by William L. McLean, which grew from 12 pages in 1900 to 28 pages in 1920, and from circulation of 6,000 to a leadership position of over 500,000 readers in the same time. The Bulletin's bolder and more commercial approach attracted additional advertising, which in turn drew more readers. Advertising, which comprised only one-third of

217-447: The 1970s with her last two books being published by The International Wizard of Oz Club : Yankee in Oz (1972) and The Enchanted Island of Oz (1976); the latter was not originally written as an Oz book. In 1965, Thompson remarked that writing the books "has been an enchanting and wonderful experience, and the children and I have had tremendous fun together." Thompson's contributions to

248-516: The Great Depression's onset, circulation fell in half and profits disappeared. Some observers criticized the newspaper for an indistinct editorial policy, which they contend may have alienated readers. On the one hand, it endorsed reform politicians; on the other hand, the newspaper was decidedly anti-labor. The newspaper ran anti-union advertisements during the 1919 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America strike, and ran no advertisements supporting

279-450: The Oz series are lively and imaginative, featuring a wide range of colorful and unusual characters. She emphasized humor to a greater extent than Baum did and more specifically targeted children as her primary audience. Scholar Russel B. Nye noted that Thompson's books are "a truer world of fun and fantasy, and a less complex one" than Baum's. In the 1983 Dictionary of Literary Biography , Michael Patrick Hearn wrote, "While her books may lack

310-566: The Public Ledger Building was constructed. Designed by John McArthur Jr. , the building had at its corner a larger-than-life-sized statue of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph A. Bailly (1825–1883), which Childs had commissioned. The quality and profitability of the Ledger improved dramatically. By 1894, The New York Times described it as "...the finest newspaper office in the country." Toward

341-400: The book under Baum's name and claimed that the book was written from Baum's notes, although this has been disproven. Between 1921 and 1939, Thompson wrote one Oz book a year. (Since Thompson was the primary supporter of her widowed mother and disabled sister, the annual income from the Oz books was important for her financial circumstances.) Thompson returned to Oz during her final years in

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372-515: The contemporary present style of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times . Curtis built the Public Ledger 's foreign news service and syndicated it to other papers through the Ledger Syndicate . From 1918 through 1921, former U.S. president William Howard Taft was on the newspaper's staff as an editorial contributor. In 1914, seeking to broaden its market and compete against The Evening Bulletin , Curtis began publishing

403-487: The end of Child's leadership, the Ledger was estimated to generate profits of approximately $ 500,000 per year. In 1870, Mark Twain mocked the Ledger for its rhyming obituaries, in a piece entitled "Post-Mortem Poetry", in his column for The Galaxy : There is an element about some poetry which is able to make even physical suffering and death cheerful things to contemplate and consummations to be desired. In 1902, Adolph Ochs , owner of The New York Times , bought

434-466: The first English-language translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion . The article was headlined "Red Bible", and the newspaper published the excerpts from The Protocols , a text proposing the existence of a Jewish plot to take over the world, After removing all references to the purported Jewish authorship of it, The Protocols was recast as a Bolshevist manifesto. Carl W. Ackerman , who wrote

465-682: The first papers to use the electromagnetic telegraph . From 1846, it was printed on the first rotary printing press . By the early 1860s, The Ledger was a money-losing operation, squeezed by rising paper and printing costs. It had lost circulation by supporting the Copperhead Policy of opposing the American Civil War and advocating an immediate peace settlement with the Confederate States of America . Most readers in Philadelphia at

496-583: The paper from George W. Childs Drexel for a reported $ 2.25 million. He merged it with the Philadelphia Times (which he had bought the previous year), and installed his brother George Oakes as editor. Oakes served as editor until 1914, two years after Curtis bought the publication. In 1913, Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased the paper from Ochs for $ 2 million and hired his step son-in-law John Charles Martin as editor. Curtis also owned Ladies' Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post . His intention

527-474: The paper was sold to George William Childs and Anthony J. Drexel for a reported $ 20,000 (equal to $ 389,617 today). After acquiring the Public Ledger , Childs changed the newspaper's policies and operations. He changed the editorial policy to support the Union, raised advertising rates, and doubled the cover price to two cents. After an initial drop, circulation rebounded and the paper resumed profitability. Childs

558-642: The philosophical and imaginative depth of Baum's best stories, Thompson's tales nevertheless consistently possess a zest, a vitality noticeably wanting in Baum's more somber interludes in his Oz books." Illustrator John R. Neill wrote her on completing the illustrations for  Kabumpo in Oz , "Incidentally, I would like to tell you how much I enjoyed reading the [manuscript] and making the pictures. After illustrating about seventeen Oz books, I think it worthwhile to let you know this with my congratulations on having secured an author of such superior qualifications to continue

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620-470: The strike. In 1930, despite the circulation slump caused by the Great Depression, Curtis expanded by buying The Philadelphia Inquirer for $ 18 million, but he did not consolidate the two newspapers. When he died in 1933, Cutis was estimated to have lost $ 30 million on his newspaper ventures, with little to show for the investment. In 1934, the Public Ledger was absorbed into the Inquirer, and management

651-523: The success of the New York Herald , one of the first penny papers and decided to use a one cent cover price to appeal to a broad audience. They mimicked the Herald's use of bold headlines to draw sales. The formula was a success and the Public Ledger posted a circulation of 15,000 in 1840, growing to 40,000 a decade later. To put this into perspective, the entire circulation of all newspapers in Philadelphia

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682-534: The time supported the Union , although there was a strong contingent of Confederate sympathizers and families with ties to the South, since many Southerners maintained second homes in Philadelphia and sent their daughters to finishing schools there. In the face of declining circulation, publishers were reluctant to increase the one-cent subscription cost, although it was needed to cover the costs of production. In December 1864,

713-456: The work of supplying the 'Oz books.' Every feature of the child appeal is handled with the greatest skill. The whimsical, the humor, the interest and the zip of the book make me think it one of the very best Oz books so far." After a falling out with Reilly & Lee in the 1930s, Thompson wrote articles, stories, and poems for various publications including Jack and Jill , Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal . In addition she

744-550: Was assumed by Cary W. Bok , Curtis's younger grandson. Bok spent two years unsuccessfully trying to make the newspaper profitable. In 1941, the Evening Public Ledger was sold to Robert Cresswell, formerly of the New York Herald Tribune . Mounting debts led to a court-ordered liquidation of the newspaper, which ceased publication in January 1942. On October 27 and October 28, 1919, the Public Ledger published excerpts from

775-535: Was assumed by John C. Martin, son-in-law of Curtis' second wife. Martin became general manager of Curtis-Martin Newspapers. On April 16, 1934, the morning and Sunday editions were merged into The Philadelphia Inquirer , which were also owned by Curtis' heirs. The Evening Public Ledger continued to be published independently. In 1939, John Martin was forced out of the management of the Evening Ledger , and control

806-473: Was closely involved in all operations of the paper, from the press room to the composing room. He intentionally upgraded the quality of advertisements appearing in the publication to suit a higher-end readership. Childs's efforts bore fruit and the Public Ledger became one of the most influential journals in the country. Circulation growth led the firm to outgrow its facilities; in 1866 Childs bought property at Sixth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia, where

837-411: Was estimated at only 8,000 when the Public Ledger was founded. The Public Ledger favored the abolition of slavery , and in 1838 its office was threatened by a pro-slavery mob, two days after the same pro-slavery group burned down the new Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia) . The Public Ledger was a technological innovator as well. It was the first daily to make use of a pony express , and among

868-596: Was pending publication when William Lee, vice president of Baum's publisher Reilly & Lee , solicited Thompson to continue the Oz series. (Rumors among fans that Thompson was Baum's niece were untrue.) Her first Oz book, 1921's The Royal Book of Oz , concerned the Scarecrow's discovery that he was once the Emperor of the Silver Isles. To smooth the transition between Baum's books and Thompson's, Reilly & Lee published

899-429: Was published in 1992. Philadelphia Public Ledger The Public Ledger was founded by William Moseley Swain , Arunah S. Abell , and Azariah H. Simmons, and edited by Swain. It was the first penny paper in Philadelphia. At the time, most newspapers sold for five cents (equal to $ 1.39 today) or more, a relatively high price which limited their appeal to readers who were reasonably well-off. Swain and Abell drew on

930-461: Was the initial editor of Ace Comics , King Comics and later became also editor of Magic Comics , all for David McKay Publications . In some cases she used the pen name Jo King. Her friend Marge provided illustrations for many of the pieces she contributed. 1965-1970 for Jack and Jill she did the Perky Puppet page. A short collection of Thompson's Oz poetry, The Cheerful Citizens of Oz ,

961-669: Was to establish the Public Ledger as Philadelphia's premier newspaper, which he achieved by buying and closing competing newspapers in the city at the time, including the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph , the Philadelphia North American , and The Philadelphia Press . In 1900, Philadelphia had 13 newspapers. Under Curtis' ownership, the Public Ledger had a conservative aesthetic appearance. It avoided bold headlines and seldom printed photographs on its front page. Its conservative format has been compared to

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