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Source: Daily Greencastle Banner and Times 7 Sept 1896 pp 3
TW McKeowen of Russellville announces his intention of starting a newspaper in Crawfordsville. The Argus News says: it will be a weekly publican neutral in politics and of a sensational tone after the Indianapolis People. Mr. McKeowen states that the proposed publication has the promised support of all the saloons and quart shops in the city and he thinks there is a bonanza in the venture. His editorial experience was gained on the Russellville Record of which he was proprietor and managing editor until recently. It may look a little like crowding the field in the sensational line.
“Darlington Correspondent – Crawfordsville. Star – Wm. Lewis, Jr of this place, has joined his brother-in-law, Frank Seaman of Terre Haute in the editorial management of the Daily News. Success attend them.
Source: Crawfordsville Review Dec 11, 1897 p 7
The news chaser from this point (New Ross) don’t profess to be a real newspaper reporter, one that is supposed to know every word in the dictionary and how to put it in the proper language to get the proper effect in each instance, but he is supposed to know what real news is and whether it is from a prolific pen. However, one consolation that subscribers have is that they are not weekly and incessantly bored with and compelled to read on entire grist of local visits and individual visits. It is not likely that if some of our rural journalists would exercise a little more energy and bestir themselves from their own fireside circle and with a little fiction now and then, and get a new subject every change of the moon, that their lines would cease to be hackneyed over the county from whence they are written and also to the general public.
C.S. Galey’s half interest in the Review, the democratic organ of Montgomery County, has been purchased by CM Berry who has been editing the Hornet at Waynetown for a couple of years. Galey will go west.
The Star – On March 10, 1887 paper sold to Jere Keeney, Jr and Willard D. Harlow. Sunday Star Dec 1, 1889.