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BY 28 APRIL 1938 – 1978 · 601–03 Roosevelt Road; editor Robert E. Urbin
By 1938 the family paper had become a company with a second paper in its name: the Walkerton Independent's own masthead of 28 April 1938 reads "Published Every Thursday by INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO., Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT" — a company of that name existed by that date, and the same masthead names a sister "News" paper with Charles M. Finch as its editor, carried here cautiously at OCR strength (the North Liberty News is the likely sister; the masthead's own text is garbled at the join, and the identification is printed as likely, not settled). The paper's week had moved with the decades: it published on Friday in 1916, in its forty-first volume year, and on Thursday by 1938; its price stood at five cents in 1941 and still in 1957. The company's later mastheads, read in the 1975 and 1978 issues, fix the modern office: The Independent-News Co., Inc., at 601–03 Roosevelt Road, Walkerton, telephone (219) 586-3139, published Thursday of each week, with Robert E. Urbin as editor in both years and the subscription at $3.00 a year in 1975.
Sources:
- Walkerton Independent, masthead of 28 April 1938 (the Independent-News Co.; publication day Thursday; the sister "News" and Charles M. Finch) — the paper's own record, OCR at transcription strength.
- Walkerton Independent / Independent-News issues of 1916, 1941, 1957, 1975 and 1978 in Hoosier State Chronicles (publication day; the five-cent price; the 601–03 Roosevelt Road office; editor Robert E. Urbin; the $3.00 subscription) — OCR at transcription strength.