The Sentinel line, and the papers of the first century

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Where the nineteenth-century record lives. Fort Wayne's first papers — the Times and the Sentinel of the 1830s and 1840s — are the contemporaneous record for the canal city, and this record's single most consequential newspaper fact came from one: the Fort Wayne Sentinel of 22 March 1845 carries John Chapman's obituary notice, which settles his death at 18 March 1845 against a century of retellings (the Goshen Democrat of 27 March 1845 corroborates). The Daily News (1874–1923), the Weekly Sentinel (1875–1917) and the Sentinel (1870–1923) reach the open web through INSPIRE's providers, paywalled or by library login; the Internet Archive holds more than 10,000 scanned Fort Wayne newspaper pages; and everything after the early 1920s is, in practice, on the ACPL's microfilm. Griswold's own 1914 Sentinel series belongs to this line too: the canon began as newspaper work.

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