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1879–1926 · Mishawaka tries the daily form
Mishawaka never sustained a daily of its own, and the record shows it trying, briefly and repeatedly, for fifty years. The first attempt is the strangest survival in the library's list: the Daily Bazar, of which the film holds December 28, 1879 to January 2, 1880, and December 20 to 24, 1880 — two runs, each a few days across a Christmas season, the shape of a fair or bazaar paper, a daily published for the life of a holiday bazaar and closed when the bazaar closed. Nothing else about it stands in the record reached: no editor, no sponsoring fair named. The second attempt is thinner still: the Mishawaka Daily Journal, of which the library holds exactly two issues, November 16, 1908, and April 24, 1909 — a daily existed in Mishawaka across that winter and spring, and these two numbers are its whole surviving file in the county's collection. The third attempt was the Enterprise's own: the Mishawaka Daily of June 1926, four weeks inside the weekly's run, after which the weekly resumed. Three tries, three short lives. The daily Mishawaka read, from the News-Times era forward, was printed in South Bend — which is the subject of the absorption article below — and the town's own press settled into the form it had kept since the 1850s: the weekly.
Sources
- Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library, St. Joseph County, Indiana Newspapers holdings list, the Daily Bazar and Mishawaka Daily Journal entries and the Mishawaka Daily run of June 1926, read first-hand.