Here’s a few additional examples we found in Hoosier State Chronicles. As a recent article in the Crawfordsville Journal-Review noted, Keeney and Bowen exchanged pointed barbs at each other in the press. Bowen (Stover sold out to Bowen six months after their acquisition) maintained a years-long feud in their respective papers. The Journal’s Jeremiah Keeney and the Review’s Charles H. Crawfordsville Review, September 16, 1865. Stover in 1854, served as the Democratic foil to Journal’s Whig perspective. The Crawfordsville Review, founded in 1841 and purchased by Charles H. Originally a Whig paper, the Journal embraced the newly-formed Republican Party in the mid-1850s. The Crawfordsville Journal started publication on July 27, 1848. Out of the ashes of the People’s Press and Tomahawk, Fry and Keeney founded one of Montgomery County’s standard papers, one that still continues today (albeit in a different form). Crawfordsville Journal, September 14, 1865. It ran from 1844 until 1848, when its “apparent financial success” waned due to “bad editorial management.” It then ran for a short, six-week stint as the Tomahawk until the paper was bought out by publishers Thomas Walker Fry and Jeremiah Keeney. Lane, along with a consortium of political and business leaders, established the People’s Press to be the official Whig party newspaper for Montgomery County. Lane, he also co-founded one of Crawfordsville’s premier Whig newspapers during the 1840s, the People’s Press. Lane, never regained the paper’s subscription base and it ceased altogether. A brief revival of the paper in 1839-40, led by William H. Wade, as a good Whig, believed that having that capital “D” was essential, as the paper would regularly refer to “Democrats and the Devil.” The paper ran until 1838, after the death of subsequent publisher William Harrison Holmes. While Wade and Bryant intended for the Record’s first issue to arrive in September, they were delayed a month because the printer required a capital “D” for typesetting. ![]() As Herman Fred Shermer noted in an article about Montgomery County publishing, the “type and presses for the Record plant were brought by freight wagons from Cincinnati, Ohio” and the cost of the publishing the first issue was approximately $400. ![]() Bryant published its first issue on October 18, 1831. The earliest paper from Montgomery County in HSC is the Crawfordsville Record. In this post, we will share some highlights of this heritage and emphasize some of the papers that are available in Hoosier State Chronicles (HSC). Montgomery County, Indiana has a rich, colorful history of newspapers, both in their coverage and the personalities that ran them.
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