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The Mears Newz (earlier known as The Mears News) was a twentieth-century newspaper published in Mears, Michigan.
The Mears News [upper-alpha 1] made its debut July 24, 1914. The Mears Newz was published by Swift Lathers, its founder and editor. Lathers worked as a stringer for a Detroit newspaper, he moved to Mears in 1909, and started The Mears News and reported on events in Mears. Lathers worked as reporter, writer, editor, printed the newspapers on a foot-operated printing press, and would hand deliver the newspapers locally. [1]
The newspaper was self-proclaimed as The Smallest Newspaper in the World. [1] [2] [3] [4] It was published on a paper that was smaller than the normal size bond. [3] Its size was approximately that of a postcard at about five by seven inches and consisted of four pages. [2] The weekly newspaper was published every Friday from 1914 to 1970. [3] Lathers had paid subscribers in 38 states. [2] Sometime after 1916 and before 1919 the News name was changed to Newz on the suggestion from a subscriber. [1]
The Mears Newz during the 1940s had a worldwide circulation of over 2000. [1] [1] [5] Lathers had a circulation at one time of over 2,700 when he voluntarily cut the list to keep subscription circulation manageable. Those whose name started before D and all those after S no longer received his newspaper." [6]
The subscription cost for the newspaper was 50 cents per year and 1 dollar for a six-month subscription. When a local businessman told Lathers that his publication would not last six months and offered him 25 cents Lathers set his subscription fee at 50 cents a year, 1 dollar for six months and 2 dollars for 3 months. The newspaper was in production for 56 years and the subscription cost never changed. [1]
The Mears Newz August 18, 1922:
The Mears News next to a standard United States Post Office issued postcard.
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