Rocky Mount Telegram
The Rocky Mount Telegram started publication as a morning newspaper in October 1910. A young Trinity College (Duke University) garduate named J.L. Horne had worked a few months on the city's established paper, The Daily Record, then decided he could start his own newspaper and do it better.
He was right. The Morning Telegram was a hit, according to a 1967 story on the history of the paper.
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