Mary Tourtel was created in 1920, at a time when the "Express" was in competition with "The Daily Mail" and its then popular comic strip "Teddy Tail", as well as the strip "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred" in "The Daily Mirror". The then news editor of the "Express", Herbert Tourtel, was approached with the task of producing a new comic strip to rival those of the "Mail" and "Mirror" and immediately thought of his wife Mary, already an established author and artist. Rupert Bear was the result and was first published as a nameless character in a strip titled "Little Lost Bear" on
The Newport Daily Express by the editor he fired in 2013. Main competitors include "The Chronicle", "The Caledonian-Record", radio stations "WIKE", "WMOO", "WJJZ (FM)", and television station "NEK-TV". The paper grosses about $1 million annually. The Newport Daily Express The Newport Daily Express is a newspaper published weekdays in Newport (city), Vermont. There were a number of predecessor papers that merged to form the "Express." W. G. Cambridge published the "Newport Republican" in 1864. He sold the paper to D. K. Simonds and Royal Cummings in 1865. They renamed the paper the "Newport Express." Simonds became the editor. In 1866, Simonds sold his share