| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME ceeds from the ranch to buy the Ogden paper violent wind hit the buffalo ranch that year however and the herd stampeded With it went the steak dinners Many of the animals swam to Antelope Island where their progeny continue to thrive With the buffalo gone the Glasmanns became pioneer publishers indeed They sold the ranch and used the proceeds of the sale to reduce the Standard mortgage Mrs Glasmann joined her husband in the management of the paper bringing with her from the ranch the first three members of what would becomefamily of five in the publishing business Ross Glasmann Abe Glasmann William Glasmann Blaine Glasmann and the late Ethel Glasmann Clark The pioneer publisherpersonality insured that the Standard under his direction would belively newspaper in an era when politics was the most frequent subject of newspaper editorials He loved politics -besides having ink in his veins -and he was skilled in the art and craft of political maneuvering and positioning Glasmann gave the newspaper new life which assured itgreater success than any of the many other papers which had been started in Ogden -and died soon after they were launched In fact until William Glasmanntime Ogden was known as the graveyard of western journalism For example An intelligent and courageous printer and editor B Stenhouse was the first to try his luck aspublisher in Ogden in 1869 His paper -the Daily Telegraph -received little support and lasted onlyfew weeks year later in 1870 the Ogden Junction Publishing Company established the Ogden Junction assemi-weekly and it becamedaily in September 1872 The Junction however gave way to the Ogden Daily Herald in 1881 with Charles Penrose as editor He would go on to become Hall of Fame journalist as editor of the Deseret News But the Herald ceased publication on December 31 1887 And tucked into the pre-Glasmann history of Ogden journalism were such papers as the Freeman the Morning 539 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
