In 1913, Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased the paper from Ochs for $2 million and hired his step son-in-law John Charles Martin as editor. Curtis was owner of the magazines, "Ladies' Home Journal" and "The Saturday Evening Post". His intention was to establish the "Ledger" as Philadelphia's premier newspaper, which he achieved by buying and closing several competing papers: the "Philadelphia Evening Telegraph", the "Philadelphia North American", and "The Philadelphia Press" among them. Philadelphia went from a peak of 13 papers in 1900 to seven in 1920, a time when the newspaper industry in the United States was consolidating in general.