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Newspapers · a town whose news ran through other towns' papers
No Newspaper of Its Own
THE HOLDINGS TEST · the county library's list and the state library's list
Osceola, on the evidence of the two libraries that keep the county's press, never had a newspaper of its own: the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library's St. Joseph County, Indiana Newspapers holdings list — the county's own…
The papers that carried Osceola
1858–2026 · the Enterprise and the Tribune
A town without a press is not a town without news; its news simply wears another town's masthead: Osceola's record has run, for as far back as the surviving files reach, through Mishawaka and South Bend. The Mishawaka Enterprise…
The memory-keepers: the town's history of itself
1988–2014 · the book and the text
What a town without a newspaper keeps instead is a book: J. Harold Kiracofe's History of Osceola , published by the Osceola Historical Society in 1988, is the town's own account of itself — the volume the Indiana State Library's…
The wire today: the digital test
LEG 97 AT TEST STRENGTH · November 2026
The town's news function today sits where the whole county's does — online, and mostly not seated here: the town government's own pages and the community's social-media groups carry the present wire at the pointer size Government…
The carriers' corporate lines whole: Mishawaka's succession, the Register, the Tribune, and the Democratic line to the News-Times
1840s–2019 · THE PAPERS THAT CARRIED THIS TOWN, AT BOUNDARY SIZE
Mishawaka's line, from the city's own commissioned history (De Kever): the city's first paper was the Tocsin , edited by Wilbur Storey — who sold it to George Merrifield, who moved it to South Bend; the name that carried…
The foreign-language press: the Polish and German lines dug, circulation into Penn Township tested
1873–1918 · COUNTY LINES DUG; THE TOWNSHIP TEST NEGATIVE
The Polish line: South Bend's Polish paper was the Goniec Polski , first number 27 June 1896, published by the Polski Goniec Publishing Company, organized by George W. Kalczynski with Dunbar & Elliott; it ran semiweekly and…
The JOA test, and the rivalry as a civic institution with its publisher
1872–1938 · TESTED NEGATIVE FOR THE AGREEMENT; THE RIVALRY DUG
The joint-operating-agreement test, with the searches shown: no joint operating agreement, shared press, or joint agency appears anywhere in the Tribune's, the Enterprise's or the News-Times' records as searched — not in Howard…
Crusades and journalists: the Klan fight at full strength, the Pulitzer test, the bylines, the contraction
1917–2019 · THE PAPERS AS ACTORS
The crusade this ground actually has is the Klan fight, and both papers and the county's history are in it: the Tribune's front page of 17 December 1922 already headlines it — "Threat of Ku Klux Grows" — and F. A. Miller's honors…
The broadcast tail, and the Black press: South Bend's lines dug, Penn Township tested
1913–2015 · BOUNDARY SIZE, AS THE ROW REQUIRES
Radio grew out of the Tribune's own building, which is why the tail belongs to this branch: South Bend's first commercial station was WBAQ, licensed 29 April 1922 to Myron L. Harmon at the YMCA and deleted that November; the…