{{short description|New York City broadsheet newspaper owned by Moe Annenberg's Cecelia Corporation}} {{Use American English|date = September 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date = September 2019}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Morning Telegraph | logo = | image = File:NY Morning Telegraph front page Feb 15 1922.png | caption = Front page of the ''Morning Telegraph'' for February 15, 1922. | type = Daily [[newspaper]] | format = [[Broadsheet]] | founded = 1839 | ceased_publication = 1972 | price = | owners = [[Triangle Publications|Triangle Publications, Inc.]] | political_position = | publisher = Stewart Hooker | editor = | staff_writers = | circulation = | headquarters = [[52nd Street (Manhattan)#West 52nd Street|525 West 52nd Street]], [[Manhattan]] | ISSN = | oclc = 9609206 | website = }} '''''The Morning Telegraph''''' (1839 – April 10, 1972) (sometimes referred to as the ''New York Morning Telegraph'') was a [[New York City]] [[broadsheet]] [[newspaper]] owned by [[Moses Annenberg|Moe Annenberg's]] [[Triangle Publications|Cecelia Corporation]]. It was first published as the ''[[Sunday Mercury (New York)|Sunday Mercury]]'' from 1839 to 1897 and became ''The Morning Telegraph'' in December, 1897.<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030648/ Library of Congress]</ref>

The paper was devoted mostly to [[Theatre|theatrical]] and [[horse racing]] news. It published a Sunday edition as the ''Sunday Telegraph''. On closing, it was replaced by an Eastern edition of Triangle's sister publication, the ''[[Daily Racing Form]]''.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ebslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OfMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2299,140440&dq=morning-telegraph&hl=en The Miami News - April 11, 1972]</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morning Telegraph, The}} [[Category:Newspapers established in 1839]] [[Category:Newspapers disestablished in 1972]] [[Category:Defunct newspapers published in New York City]] [[Category:Horse racing mass media in the United States]] [[Category:1839 establishments in New York (state)]] [[Category:1972 disestablishments in New York (state)]] [[Category:Daily newspapers published in New York City]] [[Category:Defunct daily newspapers]] [[Category:Horse racing mass media]]

{{NewYork-newspaper-stub}}