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Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, pages 391-392
DAILY JOURNAL IS ESTABLISHED. The new firm was styled Clemens & Wilson. During their regime, in June, 1855, the daily Muscatine Journal made its appearance. Regularly every week day through all the years that have intervened from that time to this, it has been issued, printing always as best it could with the facilities at hand, the news of the day, reflecting the sentiment of the community and the community's progress, and standing throughout all the years for those principles and policies which its editors and proprietors believed to be just and right.
MANY CHANGES IN SANCTUM. Beginning with 1855, the next few years saw many changes in the sanctum of the Journal. That year Orion Clemens disposed of his interests in the paper to James W. Logan. Logan & Wilson conducted the paper until January, 1856, when D. S. Early bought Mr. Wilson's interest and the latter left the newspaper fraternity never again to return to it.
About this time the Journal moved its location from the third story of the building at 108 West Second street to the third floor of the four-story Masonic building on East Second street, about half way between Cedar and Walnut streets, where it remained until 1861.
Early did not long remain with the Journal, for the same year in which he became a partner of Mr. Logan, his interests were purchased by John Mahin and F. B. McGill. Mr. Mahin retained an interest in the paper from that time until the stock of the Journal Printing Company was purchased by A. W. Lee and others in 1903.
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