In 1913, Dan R. Hanna, owner of the Cleveland Leader, brought James "The Built" Ragen to Cleveland to manage the paper's Circulation Department. The above reports for October 1913 published by the Plain Dealer (left) and the Leader (right) show that the Plain Dealer was significantly outselling the Leader. Ragen, who signed the circulation report for the Leader, was arrested less than one month later for organizing and participating in an assault upon a Plain Dealer distributor who was delivering newspapers to a street corner. He was convicted in a Cleveland court in January 1914, but amazingly was permitted to retain his position with the Leader. | Creator: Cleveland Public Library, Digital Photograph CollectionDownload Original File
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