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Undated in the record reached · before 1880
One more early title stands in the county record, and this section cannot place it. In Chapman's 1880 press chapter, between the account of the Enterprise and the South Bend papers, stands a single sentence: "The Investigator was a religious paper published by P. T. Russell for a short time," advocating the doctrines of the Christian Church. The passage names no town. It sits in the chapter where Mishawaka's papers have just been treated, and it may be Mishawaka's — a short-lived religious weekly would fit the town's press pattern — but the sentence itself does not say so, and no other record reached confirms a Mishawaka Investigator, dates it, or names Russell elsewhere in the town's print history. It is printed here at exactly that strength: a county-record religious paper of short life, published by P. T. Russell, whose assignment to Mishawaka is unverified.
Sources
- Chas. C. Chapman & Co., History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1880), the county press chapter, the Investigator sentence in its printed position, read first-hand.