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In active competition with other Atlanta newspapers, Hemphill hired special trains (one engine and car) to deliver newspapers to the Macon marketplace. In 1870 Anderson sold his one half interest in the paper to Col. He was forced to surrender his interest in the paper to Anderson and Hemphill, who then each owned one half. When Styles was unable to liquidate his holdings in an Albany newspaper, he could not pay for his purchase of the Constitution. Hemphill became the business manager, a position that he retained until 1901. Its name changed to The Atlanta Constitution in October 1869. In 1868, Carey Wentworth Styles, along with his joint venture partners James Anderson and (future Atlanta mayor) William Hemphill purchased a small newspaper, the Atlanta Daily Opinion which they renamed The Constitution, as it was originally known, was first published on June 16, 1868.

Historic American Buildings Survey image. The Journal carried the motto 'Covers Dixie like the Dew'.Ītlanta Constitution Building, in abandoned state, 1995. The radio station and the newspaper were sold in 1939 to James Middleton Cox, founder of what would become Cox Enterprises.

In 1922, the Journal founded one of the first radio broadcasting stations in the South, WSB.

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Important for the development of her 1936 Gone With the Wind were the series of profiles of prominent Georgia Civil War generals she wrote for The Atlanta Journal 's Sunday magazine, the research for which, scholars believe, led her to her work on the novel. Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Margaret Mitchell worked for the Journal from 1922 to 1926. After the Journal supported presidential candidate Grover Cleveland in the 1892 election, Smith was named as Secretary of the Interior by the victorious Cleveland. Hoge sold the paper to Atlanta lawyer Hoke Smith in 1887. The Atlanta Journal was established in 1883.

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