Newspapers & Media: Open Questions

REGISTER · each gap with its settling source

What this section could not settle, named with what would settle it: GAP-NC-NWS-1, the founder-printer and politics of the Gazette of 1880 — no masthead, Rowell, or Ayer entry naming them was reached; settlers: the Gazette's own file, John W. Miller's Indiana Newspaper Bibliography (1982; sought at IU ScholarWorks, which carries Carmony's 1983 review of the book, not its text), and the Indiana State Library's microfilm run of the title. GAP-NC-NWS-2, the 1880 Gazette's end — the directory's "189?" against Howard's Gazette of 16 November 1906, printed whole and unmerged in the article above; settlers: the same microfilm run read as a series, and Miller. GAP-NC-NWS-3, the New Carlisle Journal's whole course — founding, end, and any relation to the Gazettes on either side of it; it stands outside the directory record reached; settlers: Miller, the State Library's holdings for the title, and the Journal's own file. GAP-NC-NWS-4, the second Gazette's end and B. Wilson's identity — the directory closes the run "19??" with the last consulted issue 29 December 1939, and the publisher carries an initial only; settlers: the paper's own mastheads after 1939, Miller, and the State Library's microfilm holdings. GAP-NC-NWS-5, the New Prairie Town Crier's character, publisher, frequency, and end — a directory title only in the record reached; settlers: the paper's own file, the New Prairie school corporation's records, and Miller's successors in the State Library's current-paper archive. GAP-NC-NWS-6, the survival and location of any New Carlisle paper's file — the State Library's original-print list carries no New Carlisle title (tested, printed above); settlers: the State Library's microfilm index in Indiana Legacy, searched title by title, and the holding libraries in the directory records. GAP-NC-NWS-7, a Hawes gazetteer lead, deliberately not printed as fact: an 1862–63 Indiana gazetteer transcription reached shows a weekly "Screech Owl," W. E. Thrall, editor and publisher, in text adjacent to the New Carlisle entry, but the entry it belongs to could not be confirmed first-hand, and the directory record seats no New Carlisle paper before 1880; settler: the Hawes volume's New Carlisle page read in the original. No merger is printed anywhere in this section, because no record reached states one; no cessation date is printed for the 1880 Gazette, the 1938 Gazette, the Journal, or the Town Crier, because no record reached carries one.

Sources:

1. This section's own searches, November 2026, as recorded in the note that banks with this section (note-newspapers.md, pass NC-2).