Toby Twirl Tourtel, an assistant editor of the "Daily Express". Tourtel devised Rupert Bear shortly after the end of World War I, in 1920, when the "Daily Express" was in competition with "The Daily Mail" and its then popular comic strip “Teddy Tail” (featuring a mouse called “Teddy Tail”), as well as with the comic strip “Pip, Squeak and Wilfred” (respectively, these are the names of a dog, penguin, and rabbit) in the "Daily Mirror". Each panel of Tourtel's comic strip story was accompanied by a narrative in rhymed verse. These are the very first ("Daily Express", 8 November 1920): The title
Chicago Daily Journal Chicago Journal" (1853-1855); "Chicago Daily Journal" (1855-1861); "Chicago Evening Journal" (1861-1896); "Chicago Journal" (1896-1904); "Chicago Daily Journal" (1904-1929). In April 1844, a group of men bought the two-year old "Chicago Express". A few days later, publishing out of the former office of the "Express", the "Journal" was first published, three years prior to the start of the "Chicago Tribune". Richard L. Wilson acquired the paper from its founding group after the 1844 election. He served as editor, with a break when President Taylor appoited him postmaster of Chicago in 1849. When Wilson died in 1856, his brother Charles L. Wilson