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''''John E. King''' (1870-1938) and '''Homer D. King''' (1897-1961) were father-and-son publishers of the newspaper ''[[Hemet News]]'' in [[Riverside County, California]], between 1912 and 1961. {{TOC limit|2}} ==John E. King== ===Personal=== John E. King was born in 1870 in Minnesota to Daniel and Mary M. Grisso King. He had a sister, Alice. He was married in 1895 to Georgia Duncan, and they had a son, Homer D. (below), and a daughter, Florence Helen. His death on November 26, 1938, was attributed to a "chronic heart and kidney disorder, aggravated by [[pneumonia]]."<ref name=DeathCloses/><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/49464650/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22 "Widow of Riverside County Publisher Dies," ''Sa Bernardino County Sun," November 21, 1946, page 13]</ref> ===Career=== At the age of 11 John E. King became a printer's [[apprentice]] in [[Laketon, Indiana]]. Seven years later, he established a newspaper, the ''Leader'' in [[Larchwood, Iowa]], and in 1890 he became part owner of the ''Review'' newspaper in [[Rock Rapids, Iowa]].<ref name=DeathCloses/> From there, he went to Minnesota and founded the ''Adrian Democrat.''<ref name=DeathCloses>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/49170114/ "Death Closes Widely Known Man's Career," ''San Bernardino Daily Sun,'' November 27, 1938, pages 13 and 23]</ref> From 1901 to 1911, John F. King owned and edited the ''Gazette'' in [[Red Lake Falls, Minnesota]], followed by the ''Daily Sentinel'' in [[Missoula, Montana]]. In Minnesota, he was postmaster in the town of [[Adrian, Minnesota|Adrian]] and was a member of the state [[Board of Equalization]] for two years. He was state librarian of Minnesota from 1905 to 1911 and president of the National Association of State Librarians from 1908 to 1911.<ref name=DeathCloses/> From 1894 to 1896 he was president of the Southwest Minnesota Editorial Association, and in 1904 he was candidate for Minnesota's [[secretary of state]]. In 1908 he was secretary of Governor [[John A. Johnson]]'s presidential campaign committee, headquartered in Chicago.<ref name=DeathCloses/> In 1912, King purchased half the ownership of the ''Hemet News,'' and he moved to that community in [[Riverside County, California]], to take over the publication of the newspaper.<ref name=HemetNews>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/160143350/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22 "'Hemet News' Interest Sold," ''Los Angeles Times,'' April 26, 1937, part 1, page 13]</ref> Besides his newspaper and banking work in Hemet, King was postmaster there from 1915 to 1924 and president of the library board from 1918 to 1924. He also was a director of the [[chamber of commerce]], and he helped found the [[Ramona Pageant]] in Hemet. He was a president of the [[California Newspaper Publishers Association]]. He was a member of the [[Knights of Pythias]] and of San Bernardino Lodge, [[Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks]].<ref name=DeathCloses/> In 1925 he was appointed by Governor [[Friend Richardson]] as state printer, and he served three years. In 1927 and 1928, he was a member of the [[California State Board of Education]]. In 1932 he was a [[Electoral College|Presidential elector]]. John E. King was also a banker, being a [[Receivership|receiver]] for the San Bernardino, Rialto and Victorville National banks.<ref name=DeathCloses/> ==Homer D. King== '''Homer Duncan King,''' who was born in 1897, began his journalism career as a young man, first on the ''Hemet News,'' then the ''[[Redlands Daily Facts]]'' and the ''[[San Bernardino Sun-Telegram]]'' before becoming [[managing editor]] of the ''[[Nevada State Journal]]'' and finally of the ''[[Hollywood Citizen-News]].''<ref name=HomerKing>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/161353124/?terms=%22Homer%2BD.%2BKing%22%2Bdystrophy "Homer King, Publisher in Hemet, Dies," ''Los Angeles Times,'' February 22, 1981, page 24]</ref><ref name=CareerEnds>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/11122322/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22 "Career Ends," ''Long Beach Independent,'' February 22, 1961, page 2]</ref> He held all those positions before he was age 30.<ref name=HemetPublisher>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/55339490/?terms=%22Homer%2BD.%2BKing%22%2Bdystrophy "Hemet Publisher King Dies in Sleep," ''San Bernardino County Sun,'' February 22, 1961, page 13]</ref><refname=EditorHomer>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/116209354/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22 "Editor Homer King Dies," ''Chula Vista Star-News,'' February 26, 1961, page 2]</ref> Homer King and his sister, Helen, a schoolteacher, were both afflicted with [[multiple sclerosis]]. While King was working at the ''Citizen-News'' "a creeping paralysis first manifested itself," according to King's obituary in the ''Long Beach Independent.'' "A physician prescribed that he should be placed in a cast for two years." Instead, in 1926,<ref>The ''Long Beach Independent'' says 1924.</ref> he returned to Hemet and took over operation of the family's newspaper.<ref name=HomerKing/></blockquote> The disease was progressive. At first he could walk with a cane, and he rode a bicycle. Then, after a bad fall, he drove a specially equipped car, hobbling into his office on crutches. Later, he had to be carried in to the office.<ref name=HomerKing/> The ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote that he was "an editor and writer of great physical and professional courage" who had for twenty years "been carried each day into his office, seated in a chair, a cigar placed in his mouth and a pencil in his hand. . . . He could roll the cigar from one side of his mouth to the other," and he could sign his name "if the paper were passed beneath his hand," but he was "capable of no other movement."<ref name=HomerKing/> Columnist Earl E. Buie recalled in the ''[[San Bernardino County Sun]]'' on February 22, 1961, that King had for twenty years been "unable to move any part of his body," but "his faithful companion, Johnny McCloy, a [[male nurse]], [was] constantly at his side." McCloy "picked him up as you would a child, carried him to his car, then to his desk in his office, propped him against a stack of pillows in his chair, from which he dictated news stories, editorials and a sparkling column of philosophy, humor, comment on the events of the day and observations."<ref name=DeathWrites>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/55339490/?terms=%22Homer%2BD.%2BKing%22%2Bdystrophy "Death Writes '30' for Homer D. King," ''San Bernardino County Sun,'' February 22, 1961, page 13]</ref> Buie wrote that McCloy "kept Homer's cigars fired, his hair combed, put on his hat in a jaunty position, and, when Homer took a night out with the boys, he held his cards and shoved out the chips at the [[poker|poker table]]."<ref name=DeathWrites/> King died in his sleep on February 21, 1961.<ref name=HomerKing/> Survivors included his widow, Agnes, and a stepdaughter from a previous marriage, Alice Benham of Los Angeles. Burial was in the family plot in San Jacinto Valley Cemetery.<ref name=HomerKing/><ref name=HemetPublisher/> ==References== {{reflist}}'

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'@@ -1,1 +1,46 @@ +'''John E. King''' (1870-1938) and '''Homer D. King''' (1897-1961) were father-and-son publishers of the newspaper ''[[Hemet News]]'' in [[Riverside County, California]], between 1912 and 1961. +{{TOC limit|2}} +==John E. King== + +===Personal=== + +John E. King was born in 1870 in Minnesota to Daniel and Mary M. Grisso King. He had a sister, Alice. He was married in 1895 to Georgia Duncan, and they had a son, Homer D. (below), and a daughter, Florence Helen. His death on November 26, 1938, was attributed to a "chronic heart and kidney disorder, aggravated by [[pneumonia]]."<ref name=DeathCloses/><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/49464650/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22 "Widow of Riverside County Publisher Dies," ''Sa Bernardino County Sun," November 21, 1946, page 13]</ref> + +===Career=== + +At the age of 11 John E. King became a printer's [[apprentice]] in [[Laketon, Indiana]]. Seven years later, he established a newspaper, the ''Leader'' in [[Larchwood, Iowa]], and in 1890 he became part owner of the ''Review'' newspaper in [[Rock Rapids, Iowa]].<ref name=DeathCloses/> + +From there, he went to Minnesota and founded the ''Adrian Democrat.''<ref name=DeathCloses>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/49170114/ "Death Closes Widely Known Man's Career," ''San Bernardino Daily Sun,'' November 27, 1938, pages 13 and 23]</ref> +From 1901 to 1911, John F. King owned and edited the ''Gazette'' in [[Red Lake Falls, Minnesota]], followed by the ''Daily Sentinel'' in [[Missoula, Montana]]. + +In Minnesota, he was postmaster in the town of [[Adrian, Minnesota|Adrian]] and was a member of the state [[Board of Equalization]] for two years. He was state librarian of Minnesota from 1905 to 1911 and president of the National Association of State Librarians from 1908 to 1911.<ref name=DeathCloses/> +From 1894 to 1896 he was president of the Southwest Minnesota Editorial Association, and in 1904 he was candidate for Minnesota's [[secretary of state]]. In 1908 he was secretary of Governor [[John A. Johnson]]'s presidential campaign committee, headquartered in Chicago.<ref name=DeathCloses/> + +In 1912, King purchased half the ownership of the ''Hemet News,'' and he moved to that community in [[Riverside County, California]], to take over the publication of the newspaper.<ref name=HemetNews>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/160143350/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22 "'Hemet News' Interest Sold," ''Los Angeles Times,'' April 26, 1937, part 1, page 13]</ref> Besides his newspaper and banking work in Hemet, King was postmaster there from 1915 to 1924 and president of the library board from 1918 to 1924. He also was a director of the [[chamber of commerce]], and he helped found the [[Ramona Pageant]] in Hemet. He was a president of the [[California Newspaper Publishers Association]]. He was a member of the [[Knights of Pythias]] and of San Bernardino Lodge, [[Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks]].<ref name=DeathCloses/> + +In 1925 he was appointed by Governor [[Friend Richardson]] as state printer, and he served three years. In 1927 and 1928, he was a member of the [[California State Board of Education]]. In 1932 he was a [[Electoral College|Presidential elector]]. + +John E. King was also a banker, being a [[Receivership|receiver]] for the San Bernardino, Rialto and Victorville National banks.<ref name=DeathCloses/> + +==Homer D. King== + +'''Homer Duncan King,''' who was born in 1897, began his journalism career as a young man, first on the ''Hemet News,'' then the ''[[Redlands Daily Facts]]'' and the ''[[San Bernardino Sun-Telegram]]'' before becoming [[managing editor]] of the ''[[Nevada State Journal]]'' and finally of the ''[[Hollywood Citizen-News]].''<ref name=HomerKing>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/161353124/?terms=%22Homer%2BD.%2BKing%22%2Bdystrophy "Homer King, Publisher in Hemet, Dies," ''Los Angeles Times,'' February 22, 1981, page 24]</ref><ref name=CareerEnds>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/11122322/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22 "Career Ends," ''Long Beach Independent,'' February 22, 1961, page 2]</ref> He held all those positions before he was age 30.<ref name=HemetPublisher>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/55339490/?terms=%22Homer%2BD.%2BKing%22%2Bdystrophy "Hemet Publisher King Dies in Sleep," ''San Bernardino County Sun,'' February 22, 1961, page 13]</ref><refname=EditorHomer>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/116209354/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22 "Editor Homer King Dies," ''Chula Vista Star-News,'' February 26, 1961, page 2]</ref> + +Homer King and his sister, Helen, a schoolteacher, were both afflicted with [[multiple sclerosis]]. + +While King was working at the ''Citizen-News'' "a creeping paralysis first manifested itself," according to King's obituary in the ''Long Beach Independent.'' "A physician prescribed that he should be placed in a cast for two years." Instead, in 1926,<ref>The ''Long Beach Independent'' says 1924.</ref> he returned to Hemet and took over operation of the family's newspaper.<ref name=HomerKing/></blockquote> + +The disease was progressive. At first he could walk with a cane, and he rode a bicycle. Then, after a bad fall, he drove a specially equipped car, hobbling into his office on crutches. Later, he had to be carried in to the office.<ref name=HomerKing/> + +The ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote that he was "an editor and writer of great physical and professional courage" who had for twenty years "been carried each day into his office, seated in a chair, a cigar placed in his mouth and a pencil in his hand. . . . He could roll the cigar from one side of his mouth to the other," and he could sign his name "if the paper were passed beneath his hand," but he was "capable of no other movement."<ref name=HomerKing/> + +Columnist Earl E. Buie recalled in the ''[[San Bernardino County Sun]]'' on February 22, 1961, that King had for twenty years been "unable to move any part of his body," but "his faithful companion, Johnny McCloy, a [[male nurse]], [was] constantly at his side." McCloy "picked him up as you would a child, carried him to his car, then to his desk in his office, propped him against a stack of pillows in his chair, from which he dictated news stories, editorials and a sparkling column of philosophy, humor, comment on the events of the day and observations."<ref name=DeathWrites>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/55339490/?terms=%22Homer%2BD.%2BKing%22%2Bdystrophy "Death Writes '30' for Homer D. King," ''San Bernardino County Sun,'' February 22, 1961, page 13]</ref> + +Buie wrote that McCloy "kept Homer's cigars fired, his hair combed, put on his hat in a jaunty position, and, when Homer took a night out with the boys, he held his cards and shoved out the chips at the [[poker|poker table]]."<ref name=DeathWrites/> + +King died in his sleep on February 21, 1961.<ref name=HomerKing/> Survivors included his widow, Agnes, and a stepdaughter from a previous marriage, Alice Benham of Los Angeles. Burial was in the family plot in San Jacinto Valley Cemetery.<ref name=HomerKing/><ref name=HemetPublisher/> + +==References== + +{{reflist}} '

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'<div class="mw-parser-output">John E. King (1870-1938) and Homer D. King (1897-1961) were father-and-son publishers of the newspaper <a href="/wiki/Hemet_News" title="Hemet News">Hemet News</a> in <a href="/wiki/Riverside_County,_California" title="Riverside County, California">Riverside County, California</a>, between 1912 and 1961. <div class="toclimit-2"> <div id="toc" class="toc"> <div class="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#John_E._King">1 John E. King</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Personal">1.1 Personal</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Career">1.2 Career</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Homer_D._King">2 Homer D. King</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#References">3 References</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <h2>John E. King[<a href="/w/index.php?title=John_E._King_and_Homer_D._King&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: John E. King">edit</a>]</h2> <h3>Personal[<a href="/w/index.php?title=John_E._King_and_Homer_D._King&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal">edit</a>]</h3> John E. King was born in 1870 in Minnesota to Daniel and Mary M. Grisso King. He had a sister, Alice. He was married in 1895 to Georgia Duncan, and they had a son, Homer D. (below), and a daughter, Florence Helen. His death on November 26, 1938, was attributed to a "chronic heart and kidney disorder, aggravated by <a href="/wiki/Pneumonia" title="Pneumonia">pneumonia</a>."<a href="#cite_note-DeathCloses-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> <h3>Career[<a href="/w/index.php?title=John_E._King_and_Homer_D._King&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a>]</h3> At the age of 11 John E. King became a printer's <a href="/wiki/Apprentice" class="mw-redirect" title="Apprentice">apprentice</a> in <a href="/wiki/Laketon,_Indiana" title="Laketon, Indiana">Laketon, Indiana</a>. Seven years later, he established a newspaper, the Leader in <a href="/wiki/Larchwood,_Iowa" title="Larchwood, Iowa">Larchwood, Iowa</a>, and in 1890 he became part owner of the Review newspaper in <a href="/wiki/Rock_Rapids,_Iowa" title="Rock Rapids, Iowa">Rock Rapids, Iowa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-DeathCloses-1">[1]</a> From there, he went to Minnesota and founded the Adrian Democrat.<a href="#cite_note-DeathCloses-1">[1]</a> From 1901 to 1911, John F. King owned and edited the Gazette in <a href="/wiki/Red_Lake_Falls,_Minnesota" title="Red Lake Falls, Minnesota">Red Lake Falls, Minnesota</a>, followed by the Daily Sentinel in <a href="/wiki/Missoula,_Montana" title="Missoula, Montana">Missoula, Montana</a>. In Minnesota, he was postmaster in the town of <a href="/wiki/Adrian,_Minnesota" title="Adrian, Minnesota">Adrian</a> and was a member of the state <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Equalization" class="mw-disambig" title="Board of Equalization">Board of Equalization</a> for two years. He was state librarian of Minnesota from 1905 to 1911 and president of the National Association of State Librarians from 1908 to 1911.<a href="#cite_note-DeathCloses-1">[1]</a> From 1894 to 1896 he was president of the Southwest Minnesota Editorial Association, and in 1904 he was candidate for Minnesota's <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_state" title="Secretary of state">secretary of state</a>. In 1908 he was secretary of Governor <a href="/wiki/John_A._Johnson" class="mw-disambig" title="John A. Johnson">John A. Johnson</a>'s presidential campaign committee, headquartered in Chicago.<a href="#cite_note-DeathCloses-1">[1]</a> In 1912, King purchased half the ownership of the Hemet News, and he moved to that community in <a href="/wiki/Riverside_County,_California" title="Riverside County, California">Riverside County, California</a>, to take over the publication of the newspaper.<a href="#cite_note-HemetNews-3">[3]</a> Besides his newspaper and banking work in Hemet, King was postmaster there from 1915 to 1924 and president of the library board from 1918 to 1924. He also was a director of the <a href="/wiki/Chamber_of_commerce" title="Chamber of commerce">chamber of commerce</a>, and he helped found the <a href="/wiki/Ramona_Pageant" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramona Pageant">Ramona Pageant</a> in Hemet. He was a president of the <a href="/wiki/California_Newspaper_Publishers_Association" title="California Newspaper Publishers Association">California Newspaper Publishers Association</a>. He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Knights_of_Pythias" title="Knights of Pythias">Knights of Pythias</a> and of San Bernardino Lodge, <a href="/wiki/Benevolent_and_Protective_Order_of_Elks" title="Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks">Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-DeathCloses-1">[1]</a> In 1925 he was appointed by Governor <a href="/wiki/Friend_Richardson" title="Friend Richardson">Friend Richardson</a> as state printer, and he served three years. In 1927 and 1928, he was a member of the <a href="/wiki/California_State_Board_of_Education" title="California State Board of Education">California State Board of Education</a>. In 1932 he was a <a href="/wiki/Electoral_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral College">Presidential elector</a>. John E. King was also a banker, being a <a href="/wiki/Receivership" title="Receivership">receiver</a> for the San Bernardino, Rialto and Victorville National banks.<a href="#cite_note-DeathCloses-1">[1]</a> <h2>Homer D. King[<a href="/w/index.php?title=John_E._King_and_Homer_D._King&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Homer D. King">edit</a>]</h2> Homer Duncan King, who was born in 1897, began his journalism career as a young man, first on the Hemet News, then the <a href="/wiki/Redlands_Daily_Facts" title="Redlands Daily Facts">Redlands Daily Facts</a> and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Bernardino_Sun-Telegram&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="San Bernardino Sun-Telegram (page does not exist)">San Bernardino Sun-Telegram</a> before becoming <a href="/wiki/Managing_editor" title="Managing editor">managing editor</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Nevada_State_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Nevada State Journal">Nevada State Journal</a> and finally of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hollywood_Citizen-News&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hollywood Citizen-News (page does not exist)">Hollywood Citizen-News</a>.<a href="#cite_note-HomerKing-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-CareerEnds-5">[5]</a> He held all those positions before he was age 30.<a href="#cite_note-HemetPublisher-6">[6]</a><refname=EditorHomer><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/116209354/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22">"Editor Homer King Dies," Chula Vista Star-News, February 26, 1961, page 2</a></ref> Homer King and his sister, Helen, a schoolteacher, were both afflicted with <a href="/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis" title="Multiple sclerosis">multiple sclerosis</a>. While King was working at the Citizen-News "a creeping paralysis first manifested itself," according to King's obituary in the Long Beach Independent. "A physician prescribed that he should be placed in a cast for two years." Instead, in 1926,<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> he returned to Hemet and took over operation of the family's newspaper.<a href="#cite_note-HomerKing-4">[4]</a> The disease was progressive. At first he could walk with a cane, and he rode a bicycle. Then, after a bad fall, he drove a specially equipped car, hobbling into his office on crutches. Later, he had to be carried in to the office.<a href="#cite_note-HomerKing-4">[4]</a> The Los Angeles Times wrote that he was "an editor and writer of great physical and professional courage" who had for twenty years "been carried each day into his office, seated in a chair, a cigar placed in his mouth and a pencil in his hand. . . . He could roll the cigar from one side of his mouth to the other," and he could sign his name "if the paper were passed beneath his hand," but he was "capable of no other movement."<a href="#cite_note-HomerKing-4">[4]</a> Columnist Earl E. Buie recalled in the <a href="/wiki/San_Bernardino_County_Sun" class="mw-redirect" title="San Bernardino County Sun">San Bernardino County Sun</a> on February 22, 1961, that King had for twenty years been "unable to move any part of his body," but "his faithful companion, Johnny McCloy, a <a href="/wiki/Male_nurse" class="mw-redirect" title="Male nurse">male nurse</a>, [was] constantly at his side." McCloy "picked him up as you would a child, carried him to his car, then to his desk in his office, propped him against a stack of pillows in his chair, from which he dictated news stories, editorials and a sparkling column of philosophy, humor, comment on the events of the day and observations."<a href="#cite_note-DeathWrites-8">[8]</a> Buie wrote that McCloy "kept Homer's cigars fired, his hair combed, put on his hat in a jaunty position, and, when Homer took a night out with the boys, he held his cards and shoved out the chips at the <a href="/wiki/Poker" title="Poker">poker table</a>."<a href="#cite_note-DeathWrites-8">[8]</a> King died in his sleep on February 21, 1961.<a href="#cite_note-HomerKing-4">[4]</a> Survivors included his widow, Agnes, and a stepdaughter from a previous marriage, Alice Benham of Los Angeles. Burial was in the family plot in San Jacinto Valley Cemetery.<a href="#cite_note-HomerKing-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-HemetPublisher-6">[6]</a> <h2>References[<a href="/w/index.php?title=John_E._King_and_Homer_D._King&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</h2> <div class="reflist" style="list-style-type: decimal;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-DeathCloses-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DeathCloses_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-DeathCloses_1-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-DeathCloses_1-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-DeathCloses_1-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-DeathCloses_1-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-DeathCloses_1-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-DeathCloses_1-6">g</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/49170114/">"Death Closes Widely Known Man's Career," San Bernardino Daily Sun, November 27, 1938, pages 13 and 23</a></li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/49464650/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22">"Widow of Riverside County Publisher Dies," Sa Bernardino County Sun," November 21, 1946, page 13</a></li> <li id="cite_note-HemetNews-3"><a href="#cite_ref-HemetNews_3-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/160143350/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22">"'Hemet News' Interest Sold," Los Angeles Times, April 26, 1937, part 1, page 13</a></li> <li id="cite_note-HomerKing-4">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HomerKing_4-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-HomerKing_4-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-HomerKing_4-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-HomerKing_4-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-HomerKing_4-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-HomerKing_4-5">f</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/161353124/?terms=%22Homer%2BD.%2BKing%22%2Bdystrophy">"Homer King, Publisher in Hemet, Dies," Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1981, page 24</a></li> <li id="cite_note-CareerEnds-5"><a href="#cite_ref-CareerEnds_5-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/11122322/?terms=%22Hemet%2BNews%22">"Career Ends," Long Beach Independent, February 22, 1961, page 2</a></li> <li id="cite_note-HemetPublisher-6">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HemetPublisher_6-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-HemetPublisher_6-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/55339490/?terms=%22Homer%2BD.%2BKing%22%2Bdystrophy">"Hemet Publisher King Dies in Sleep," San Bernardino County Sun, February 22, 1961, page 13</a></li> <li id="cite_note-7"><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a> The Long Beach Independent says 1924.</li> <li id="cite_note-DeathWrites-8">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DeathWrites_8-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-DeathWrites_8-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/55339490/?terms=%22Homer%2BD.%2BKing%22%2Bdystrophy">"Death Writes '30' for Homer D. King," San Bernardino County Sun, February 22, 1961, page 13</a></li> </ol> </div> </div>   </div>'

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