Snyder, Texas
During World War II Harte served in the United States Army. After the war he entered Dartmouth College from which he earned a bachelor's degree. After graduating, he became a reporter for "The Claremont Eagle" in New Hampshire. He left that position to become a reporter for "The Kansas City Star". He then partnered with his brother, Houston H. Harte, and Bernard Hanks’s son-in-law, Stormy Shelton, in buying the weekly Snyder, Texas newspaper "The Snyder Daily News". That publication became part of the Harte-Hanks newspaper chain.