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operated in the cellar for several weeks and Don spent a few years organising for the construction of new premises. While it was three times the size of the first, the new building became too small after the purchase of the
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money, it became daily in May 1934 and offered national and cable news. The competition went on for twenty years until the board of the struggling
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made large profits from television stations and looked to buy small rural papers. In response, Don McPherson bought seven papers from 1961 to 1966. The
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