The directory record first: four titles seated in New Carlisle

1690–PRESENT DIRECTORY · U.S. Newspaper Directory, Chronicling America (Library of Congress)

The succession in this section is built from the directory, not from memory or from the papers' reputations: searched by place and pinned to St. Joseph County, Indiana, the United States Newspaper Directory carries four New Carlisle titles. The New Carlisle Gazette, 1880 to 189?, weekly in the listings that show frequency, LCCN SN87055951 (OCLC 15560304). A second, separately catalogued New Carlisle Gazette, 1938 to 19??, weekly, LCCN SN87056643 (OCLC 16826360) — the directory treats the 1938 paper as its own record with its own control number, and this section does the same. The New Prairie Town Crier, 1970 to 19??, LCCN SN87056632 (OCLC 16826656). And the New Carlisle News, LCCN SN2002062421 (OCLC 51896109), whose own title record — read first-hand — dates it 2002–2015 and calls it biweekly. That is the whole directory skeleton: two Gazettes, a Town Crier, and a News. Everything else in this section — the Journal of 1916, the Gazette issue of November 1906, the publishers' names the directory does not carry — hangs on that skeleton at its own, separately labeled strength, and the gaps register at the end names what the skeleton cannot settle.

Sources:

1. United States Newspaper Directory records via Chronicling America (Library of Congress), as reproduced in the Chronicling America-derived title listing for Saint Joseph County places, read first-hand — the four New Carlisle titles, their runs, LCCNs and OCLC numbers as above.
2. Library of Congress title records read first-hand: New Carlisle Gazette (SN87056643) and New Carlisle News (SN2002062421). The LOC item pages for SN87055951 and SN87056632 returned HTTP 403; the denial was honored and not retried, and those two titles stand at directory-listing strength throughout this section.