The Gazette again: B. Wilson's new volume 1, 6 October 1938

6 OCTOBER 1938 – END NOT ESTABLISHED · weekly · publisher B. Wilson (the record carries the initial only)

In the autumn of 1938 the town's oldest newspaper name started over at volume 1: the Library of Congress title record for the second New Carlisle Gazette — a separate record, with its own control number, from the Gazette of 1880 — reads "New Carlisle [Ind.] : B. Wilson, 1938–", weekly, beginning "Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 6, 1938)," with the latest issue the cataloguers consulted "Vol. 2A, no. 12 (Dec. 29, 1939)." A new volume 1 is the paper's own arithmetic, and it matters: whatever relation Wilson's Gazette bore to the paper of 1880–1906, its numbering claims a fresh start, not a continuation, and this section prints the two Gazettes as two lines under one name, as the directory itself catalogues them. Of B. Wilson the record reached carries the initial and the role and nothing more — no first name, no biography, no second title — and the publisher stands at that size, with the fuller identification named as a gap. The paper's end is likewise not established: the directory closes the run at "19??," the cataloguers' last consulted issue is the last day of 1939, and no record reached carries the second Gazette forward or closes it. Its cessation stands in the gaps register as an open gap — never a date the record does not carry — with the Indiana State Library's microfilm holdings and Miller's bibliography as its settlers.

Sources:

1. Library of Congress title record, read first-hand: New Carlisle Gazette (New Carlisle [Ind.]), 1938–19??, weekly, "New Carlisle [Ind.] : B. Wilson, 1938–"; Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 6, 1938); latest issue consulted Vol. 2A, no. 12 (Dec. 29, 1939); LCCN SN87056643, OCLC 16826360; language English; county Saint Joseph.