# Portland Sunday Telegram

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'''''Portland Sunday Telegram''''' was a [newspaper](/source/newspaper) published in [Portland, Maine](/source/Portland%2C_Maine). It was founded in 1888 by C. B. Anderson and was first published on May 1, 1888, by  C. B. Anderson & Company.<ref name="Miller">{{cite book|page=460|title=The History of Current Maine Newspapers|first=Alan Robert|last= Miller|year= 1978|publisher=Eastland Press}}</ref> Its first editor was George B. Bagley.<ref>{{cite book|title=Portland City Guide: The American Guide Series|year=1940|author=Workers of the Writers' Program of the [Work Projects Administration](/source/Work_Projects_Administration) in the State of Maine|publisher=Forest City Printing Company|page=176}}</ref> Bagley, who was concurrently the publisher of ''The Portland Globe'', acquired the ''Portland Sunday Telegram''' from Anderson not long after the newspaper started publishing. At this point Thomas J. Flaherty became editor and manager of the paper; a position he maintained until his death in 1927.<ref name="Miller"/> In 1928 the ''Portland Sunday Telegram'' merged with the ''[Portland Press Herald](/source/Portland_Press_Herald)'' to form the ''Portland Sunday Telegram and Sunday Press Herald''.<ref>{{cite book|page=756|title=Maine, Resources, Attractions, and Its People, A History, Volume 2|first=Harrie Badger|last= Coe|year= 1928|publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company}}</ref>

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