Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Headless Torso, Part 1 | 1

Business Wars

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History, David Brown, Business, Management

4.6 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This is the beginning of a mystery, a great business rivalry, and a look into American history. To tell the story of Hearst vs Pulitzer, we called our friend Lindsay Graham over at American History Tellers for help.

The Headless Torso mystery is about a jilted husband, a German midwife, a muscleman and more colorful characters. The city’s been mesmerized for months, and in Gilded Age New York, most people just couldn’t resist pressing their pennies into a newsboy’s ink-stained hand to find out the latest.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to business wars, add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:08.6	Step back for a minute and imagine what it would have been like to live in New York City in
0:14.2	1897.
0:16.2	It's a
0:17.1	Swelltering summer day. Like other city dwellers, you get all your news from a single source. Daily newspapers.
0:24.9	New York has more than a dozen papers all cranking out new editions day and night.
0:30.2	The two fastest growing papers are the world and the journal.
0:34.9	That summer in 1897,
0:37.2	they're battling for scoops on one of the city's most sensational and lurid crimes ever.
0:43.6	And in Guilded Age, New York, and that's saying something.
0:47.7	The case is known as the headless torso murder.
0:51.6	Lower leg found in East River, perfect match to the torso, get it in the New York world.
0:58.6	To promote the latest headlines about this grisly saga, the papers use newsies.
1:04.9	These are kids, some as young as six years old, who work each street corner waving fresh hot copies and
1:11.3	Hawking the headlines.
1:13.3	Walking down the street, you can't avoid a throng of them in their knickers and caps.
1:18.2	They criss-cross in front of you as you make your way to work.
1:22.1	Read all about it.
1:24.0	Even if you could somehow resist paying two cents for a copy,
1:28.6	you get a sense of the news just by listening to their crimes.
1:31.3	Jailhouse confession from Augusta Stannack only in the New York
1:35.0	journey. Murder suspect tells tales of a love triangle gone wrong. Read all about it.
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