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The Tocsin (1841), the Bee (1846), the Free Democrat (1848), the Free Press — zero issues in the holdings; the short runs that do survive
What it is: the Mysteries leg's archive finding, stated at full strength: of Mishawaka's earliest papers — the Tocsin, the Bee, the Free Democrat, the Free Press — no issue stands in the public library's holdings list, read whole. They survive as titles, dates and the county histories' notices. The Free Press's material circumstance is known from the Tetlow dissertation: it was printed in the office of the (Michigan) Republic — its proprietor Ireland owned no plant. The runs that do survive on the list stand beside them: the Democrat (1897–98; July 1907–August 1908), the Mishawaka Times (film September 1961–5 October 1966), Countryman's Press (film January 1957–December 1976), the Mishawaka Monitor (8 April 1993–9 February 1995), the Daily Bazar (Christmas-season dailies, December 1879 and 1880), and the Mishawaka Daily Journal, of which two issues survive (16 November 1908; 24 April 1909).
Its standing, from this build's experience: an absence in a holdings list read whole is a finding, and this build prints it as one — the archive-that-is-not-there is part of the town's record, because every question those papers would have answered (the 1840s town, the Free Press's politics) must now be answered from the county histories' notices or not at all.
Where it fails: a holdings list is one library's shelves. The build states the negative as the list states it — no issue in the holdings — and names the union catalogs and Miller's bibliography (below) as the record that could widen it.
Sources:
- Republic printing circumstance, and the short runs as the list gives them.