LEDGER/LOCAL, USA (Lakeland, Florida)

      THE LEDGER is a daily newspaper serving Lakeland, Florida, and the Polk County area.
The paper was founded on August 22, 1924 as the LAKELAND EVENING LEDGER. In 1927, it bought its main competitor, the morning LAKELAND-STAR TELEGRAM. By 1930, it was obvious that Lakeland could not support two papers, so Ledger Publishing Company merged the two papers into a single morning paper, the Lakeland LEDGER AND STAR-TELEGRAM. In 1941, STAR-TELEGRAM was dropped from the masthead, and in 1967 the name was shortened to simply the LEDGER.

Below: 19 April 1976.