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     LOUISA COUNTY RECORD – An Independent Republican paper. BARR & IVES, Publishers and proprietors, Wapello, Iowa. The LOUISA COUNTY RECORD was established by its present proprietors in 1870, the first number being issued on the 17th of November of that year. It is an eight-column sheet, being the largest paper and having the largest circulation of any paper published in the county. The first number was issued without a subscription list or a subscriber’s name on the books.

    The office burned out in the big fire of August 14, 1873, but the paper has never missed a single issue. Its publishers are among the early settlers of the county, having resided here respectively thirty-five and thirty-two years. Their interests are therefore identified with the interests of the county, for the advancement of which they have and will continue to labor.