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BY 1916–17 · publisher Harry Roloff · the one-paper town, stated by the gazetteer itself
Between the two Gazettes, the town's paper wore a third name: Polk's Indiana Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1916–17 describes New Carlisle — population 650, on the L.S. & M.S. Railway, thirteen miles west of the county seat — in one sentence that settles the joint-operating question for this town: "Has a bank and a weekly newspaper." One bank, one weekly. The gazetteer's business list names that weekly and its man: "New Carlisle Journal, Harry Roloff, publisher," and repeats him in the town's roster — "Roloff Harry, pub New Carlisle Journal." Roloff is, on the record reached, the first New Carlisle publisher this build can name, and he is a publisher as public figure at exactly the size the record carries: a name, a title, and a town small enough that the two were the same listing twice. The Journal has no entry among the four titles of the directory record reached, and no record reached dates its founding, traces it to the Gazette before it, or carries it forward to the Gazette of 1938 after it. It prints here as its own line, documented at one dated point — a weekly Journal publishing at New Carlisle in 1916–17 under Harry Roloff — with its beginning, its end, and its relation to the Gazettes named as gaps. No merger, succession, or renaming is printed, because no record reached states one.
Sources:
- Polk's Indiana Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1916–17, pt. 2 — the New Carlisle entry ("Has a bank and a weekly newspaper"; "New Carlisle Journal, Harry Roloff, publisher"; "Roloff Harry, pub New Carlisle Journal"), at transcription strength.
- United States Newspaper Directory records for New Carlisle as above — no Journal title among the four records reached; the absence is printed as reached, not as proof none was ever catalogued.