The Journal Review is a newspaper based in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA with a circulation of 6,000. It is a daily except Sunday paper and reports national news and news for the surrounding Montgomery County area in print and online.[2] The paper was founded in 1929 as an independent daily from the merger of the Journal and the Review.[3] This small town newspaper has chronicled multiple notable events.
In 1879 The Crawfordsville Journal named its only nineteenth century female associate editor, Mary Hannah Krout. She was associate editor for 3 years.[4]
The Crawfordsville Weekly Journal published in 1890 an obituary for Fisher Dougherty, an Abolitionist whose home was a station on the Underground Railroad in Crawfordsville.[5][6]
In 1891 The Crawfordsville Journal reported on the phenomenon known as the Crawfordsville Monster[7]
In 1910 The Crawfordsville Daily Journal reported on Theodore Roosevelt stopping to campaign in Crawfordsville.[8]
In 1918 The Crawfordsville Daily Journal reported on a city-wide parade ex-president William H. Taft lead to officially open a local Bank.[8]
History
1929 Founded as the Crawfordsville Journal and Review with the merger of the two Crawfordsville papers. Owned by H. Foster Fudge[2][9]
Crawfordsville Journal History
1894-1929 Crawfordsville Journal published by Journal Co.[10]
1894-1894 Crawfordsville Daily Journal published by Journal Co.[11]
1894-188? The Daily Journal published by T.H.B. McCain[12]
↑ Miller, John (1982). Indiana Newspaper Bibliography: Historical Accounts of All Indiana Newspapers Published from 1804 to 1980 and Locational Information for All Available Copies, Both Original and Microfilm. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society. pp.320–322.
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