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First Press — Nothing Before the Standard Stands in the Record

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To 1926 · Howard's Press chapter and the HSC list, read whole

Howard names no Lakeville paper. Timothy Edward Howard's Press chapter (1907, pp. 463–472), read first-hand in LK-3, treats the county's press title by title and every title is a South Bend title; no Lakeville paper is named. The Hoosier State Chronicles free titles list, read whole twice (LK-1, LK-3), carries no Lakeville heading — it carries the group's Walkerton title, which is how the Standard's existence surfaces at all. The phrase "Lakeville Republican," which a searcher meets in the Mangus obituary record, is an officeholder phrase — a party label for a man — and not a newspaper title in any hit reached, as LK-1 established. Lakeville therefore has one verified title and no rival or predecessor line: the Standard inside the Independent-News Co. group is the whole of the town's own press, at the strength reached. No foreign-language paper was ever seated in Lakeville on any carrier reached; the county's foreign-language layer — South Bend's Goniec Polski (1934–1964, on the county microfilm list) and the Hungarian papers of the state library's account — is South Bend's record and stands here at pointer size only. No Lakeville journalist, crusade, or Pulitzer record exists on any carrier reached; that prints as reach, not as proof of none.

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Source: First Press — Nothing Before the Standard Stands in the Record, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/newspapers-media/first-press-nothing-before-the-standard-stands-in-the/