In 1903, Harry Byrd took over his father's newspaper, the "Winchester Star." Under his father's ownership, it came to owe $2500 (Inflation) to its newsprint supplier, the Antietam Paper Company. The company refused to ship more newsprint on credit, so Byrd cut a deal to make daily cash payments in return for ownership. As Byrd would later say, "when you have to hunt for them that way, you get to know how many cents there really are in a dollar." He eventually bought the "Harrisonburg Daily News-Record" and several other papers in the Shenandoah Valley. His family operated these papers until April 1, 2018 when they were sold to The Ogden Newspapers Inc. of Wheeling, W.Va