 Seaton thereafter operated the "Chronicle" as a separate paper until 1943, when it was merged with the "Mercury".In 1926, Seaton purchased the "Manhattan Nationalist" – the oldest newspaper in Manhattan, dating back to 1859 – and began operating under both names (until 1943).Fay Seaton's son Fred Andrew Seaton ran another newspaper in the Seaton publishing group, the "Hastings (Neb.)