Sentence:  But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis <WSD>purchased</WSD> it - `` paper , type , and all '' - for $ 1000 it was a 16 - page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany , and with only some 2000 subscribers . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction