Newspapers: the papers, and where their runs actually live

The University of Notre Dame's Building South Bend property record for the runs; the repository carriers verified at catalog strength

Three papers carry this county's record, and only one of them can be read free. The St. Joseph Valley Register (1845–1887), the township-settlement paper, bought out by the Tribune in 1887; the South Bend Tribune, weekly from 9 March 1872 and daily from 28 May 1873, the county paper of record — the carrier of every modern item this build prints, from the 2002 county plan to the March 2026 merger vote; and the South Bend News-Times (1913–1938), the second daily of the incorporation decades. The repositories state the working reality: no free full-text Tribune run exists online — the complete digital archive, 1873–2018, is a NewsBank product, authenticated (Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries acquired it for their own community), with subscription runs on the commercial databases and microfilm the un-authenticated route. What is free is narrower and prints at its two scopes: Michiana Memory's digitised Tribune photographs run 1937–1990, in a collection that itself runs 1937–1999 and remains Tribune-copyright at the holding library (image row IV-IMG-8, terms-check) — photographs, not a searchable text run, and no substitute for one (trap T-14); and Hoosier State Chronicles carries the News-Times at issue strength, freely searchable — the one South Bend daily of the three of which that is true. No pre-1990 Tribune item for this town has been reached at any free strength, and the subscription run that would test the question stands on the pull list as an expenditure route, not approached.