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WALKERTON VISITOR (1875) → INDEPENDENT → INDEPENDENT-NEWS (1962) · LCCN SN86063061, SN87055783
What it is: the single most-used source in this build, and the only one that is also one of its subjects. The succession, whole: the Walkerton Visitor, first issued April 7, 1875; the Independent, whose surviving issues run under the title St. Joseph County Independent (Library of Congress record SN86063061); the Independent-News from 1962 (SN87055783), still publishing in 1996 — and there the reached record ends, the paper's cessation not established in any source these passes found (GAP-W-NWS-1), a gap the Newspapers leg prints rather than papers over. As evidence the paper works at three strengths, and the build keeps them apart: read first-hand in the Hoosier State Chronicles runs (the 1900 exposition notice of April 20, 1901; the 1932 lodge notice; the December 1, 1988 front page, upgraded to a full-page read in W-11), it is the town's own testimony — the 1948 town-team game, the bank suspensions' local face, the fair that the county record forgot; quoted in other papers and books, it is a carrier; and its own business facts (its foundings, its mergers, its end) come from the catalog record — the LCCN entries and the state library's newspaper holdings — because a paper is the worst witness to its own biography. The runs' edges are printed with the citations: Hoosier State Chronicles holds the paper in bands, not whole, and every Independent fact in this build that rests on a search extract rather than a page is marked for the full "license branch" sweep of the run that stands in the pull list.
Principal sources: the Independent and Independent-News as cited across the legs (Hoosier State Chronicles); Library of Congress newspaper directory records SN86063061 and SN87055783; the Newspapers leg for the succession as printed.