The Birmingham Age-Herald
The Birmingham Age-Herald was a newspaper published in Birmingham from 1888 to 1950.
The Daily Herald founded by William Pinckard in 1887 merged with the slightly-older Daily Age on November 8, 1888. Pinckard retained ownership until 1894. In 1895 it was bought by the founders of The Daily State and merged with that paper to become The Birmingham State Herald. Their general manager, John Rountree assumed controlling interest in the publication.
Rountree sold the paper to Edward Barrett in 1897, and the Age-Herald name was restored. Under his guidance, the paper campaigned for educational progress in the state.
After Barrett's death, the paper was bought by Frederick Thompson, B. B. Comer, and his son, Donald Comer. They sold it to Birmingham News publisher Victor Hanson in 1927. He kept both papers going, the Age-Herald in the morning, and the News in the evenings with a joint Birmingham News Age-Herald Sunday edition.
The Age-Herald was sold to Scripps-Howard, who published the The Birmingham Post, in 1950 with the resulting paper was dubbed The Birmingham Post-Herald.
In 1933, the first on-the-job fatality of a newspaper-carrier for the Age-Herald occurred. T.E. McGiboney, aged 15, was struck by a car while delivering papers on his bicycle. He is buried at Oakland Cemetery in Fairfield.