Newspapers & Media: Not Found in the Record

DIRECTORY TESTED, NOVEMBER 2026 · the boundary carriers named at boundary size

Two branches of the checklist were tested against the directory record and returned negatives, printed here with the searches named so a checker can re-run them: The foreign-language press. The four directory titles seated in New Carlisle are all English-language records — the Library of Congress records read first-hand state the language, English, for the 1938 Gazette and the News alike, and no foreign-language title appears under New Carlisle in the directory listing. The county's foreign-language press was seated at the county seat, at boundary size: South Bend's Polish Goniec Polski (1896–1964, LCCN SN82016349) and the Indiana-Posten (from 1899, LCCN SN2004061808) stand in the same directory listing, one town east. If a foreign-language paper was ever printed at New Carlisle, it is not in the U.S. Newspaper Directory record reached, and Miller's bibliography is its named settler. The Black press. No African American newspaper appears among New Carlisle's directory titles, and none was found's searches. Indiana's Black press, at boundary size, runs from its first known papers of 1878–79 to the Indianapolis Recorder — founded as a church bulletin by George P. Stewart and William Porter in 1895, a weekly newspaper from 1897, and still publishing — seated at Indianapolis, a state away in practice. New Carlisle's Black-audience medium, when it comes, comes by broadcast, and it is carried in the broadcast article below: the station licensed to this town today programs R&B.

Sources:

1. United States Newspaper Directory records and the Chronicling America-derived Saint Joseph County listing, as above — the language fields of the New Carlisle records; Goniec Polski (SN82016349) and Indiana-Posten (SN2004061808) under South Bend in the same listing.
2. Poynter newsroom profile of the Indianapolis Recorder (2026) and the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis Recorder entry — the 1895 founding, the 1897 weekly, continuous publication.
3. "List of African American newspapers in Indiana" — the state's first known Black papers (the Evansville Our Age, in circulation by 1878; the Indianapolis Leader and Logansport Colored Visitor, both August 1879), at listing strength; no New Carlisle title in it was reached.