of
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, pages 383-384
FIRST ISSUE IN A STABLE. In a letter written by the late Professor T. S. Parvin, published in the semicentennial edition of the Journal, it is stated that "the miserable cabin," of which the editors of the Herald speak, was in fact a stable belonging to Colonel Isett, one of the most prominent residents of the village at that early day. But for this matter of not being able to find a location, presuming that the Herald editors spoke truly when they declared the difficulty delayed the appearance of the paper two weeks, the Muscatine Journal of today would have been the pioneer paper in the city as well as the oldest paper now published. For one week before the issue of the first Herald, however, Messrs. Crum and Bailey, who had secured the only vacant building in the place, issued the Iowa Standard. The Standard, though, was not long a fixture in Bloomington, moving the next year to Iowa City, which was then assuming considerable prominence as the capital of the state.
But the Herald through many changes of management, through many diversities and through two brief periods of suspension, remained in Muscatine, remained until as the Muscatine Journal under the management of John Mahin it was placed upon a sound business and editorial basis and became one of the most prominent and influential papers in the state.
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