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1848–1907
The remainder of Howard's press chapter: Beyond the two great lines, the 1907 history's press chapter carries the city's lesser papers at the sizes their records support, and this entry keeps them together as Howard kept them. First by date is the Free Democrat of 1848, established by Dr. E. W. H. Ellis to champion the Free Soil movement, published for a few months and gone. The Sunday paper came from the city's directory maker. Timothy G. Turner published the Gazetteer of the St. Joseph Valley in 1867, began the city directory in 1871, and from 1869 issued a series of Annuals, in connection with which he published a Sunday paper; the Annuals and the Sunday paper were discontinued after 1881, and William L. Farr took up the directory.
A second, longer-lived Sunday News was issued on 24 April 1887 by Chauncey N. Fassett, a former editor of the Register, and was still publishing every Sunday morning in 1907, steering, as Howard wrote, "between the breakers of the Times and the Tribune"; Fassett would later edit the morning News in the News-Times consolidation. The Greenback movement had its organ in the Industrial Era, established in the fall of 1879 by Ralph E. Hoyt; it ran a few months and was succeeded by the South Bend Era, whose first copy appeared 27 March 1880 under Benjamin Franklin Shively as sole editor and proprietor — Shively afterwards a congressman of national reputation. The Post completes the survey: the Post Printing Company was incorporated on 26 January 1892 by John W. O'Bannon, William H. Burke, and Gay L. Tafts, published at 232 North Main Street under editor Herbert Hunt, and was, in Howard's words, "an exceedingly neat and well edited paper, which however survived but a few months." Of the few special-interest journals that remain, Howard wrote that they "need not be further referred to" — the record's own boundary, printed here as he drew it.
Sources:
- Timothy E. Howard, History of St. Joseph County (1907), Chapter VII, §§5–6 — Turner's Gazetteer, Annuals, and Sunday paper; Fassett's Sunday News of 24 April 1887; the Free Democrat of 1848; the Industrial Era and the South Bend Era of 27 March 1880; and the Post of 1892.