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By 16 September 1926 · Independent-News Co., Walkerton, publishers
The title existed, and its publisher is named. The carrier is the Walkerton Independent of 16 September 1926, page 6, read first-hand on Hoosier State Chronicles (issue OID WLKI19260916.1.6). Its masthead block reads — OCR-garbled, and printed at garble strength, not regularised: "THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT / NORTH LIBERTY NEWS / LAKEVILLE STANDARD / THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES," with, in the same block, a business manager's and an editor's names in OCR-corrupted forms that are not regularised here, and the issue entered at the Walkerton post office as second-class matter. What this establishes, exactly: a Lakeville paper called the Standard existed and was published by the Independent-News Co. of Walkerton as of 16 September 1926, as one title in a four-title southern St. Joseph County weekly group.
What it does not establish prints with equal plainness. The Standard's founding date was not reached on any carrier. Its full span was not reached. Its frequency as its own title was not reached — the group is a weeklies group, and the Standard's own frequency statement was not found. Its editor in its own right was not reached. Where any surviving run sits was not reached: no issue of the Standard itself was opened, and no holdings carrier reached names one. The named settlers stand: the St. Joseph County section of Miller's Indiana Newspaper Bibliography (1982); Sheneman's Southern St. Joseph County (2004), unread in any pass; and the Indiana Legacy microfilm index, reached as a route and not successfully queried (the holdings article below). Earlier passes named "the Lakeville Standard run" as a settler for other gaps in this build; that phrase is corrected by this section — the title and publisher are verified, the run is not, and the phrase must not be repeated as an established holding.