The Union County Journal (Marysville, Ohio)
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617 issues from 1945 to 1951, published in Marysville, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Union County Journal began publication in Marysville, Union County, Ohio, on June 15, 1875, as a successor to the Marysville Journal, established by C. M. Kenton a year earlier. By 1887, the Union County Journal was conducted by A. J. Hare, who sold the paper to Bruce Barton Gaumer on August 4th, 1904. On December 5, 1916, Gaumer increased the publication frequency to twice a week. Bruce’s son, Frank Thomas Gaumer, joined the Union County Journal as editor. Bruce’s daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married the business manager, W. E. Behrens. In December of 1950, Bruce bought the nearby Marysville Tribune and on March 1, 1951, merged his two papers into the Evening Journal-Tribune. When Bruce Gaumer died in 1956, he left the paper to his two children. In 1960, Frank Thomas sold his half to his sister and Behrens to teach journalism at the Ohio State University. The newspaper still publishes today under Gaumer-Behrens ownership and the name Marysville Journal-Tribune.
The Union County Journal published on Mondays and Thursdays. It circulated in both the town of Marysville and the county as a whole. It was a Democratic paper composed of eight columns and a variable number of pages. It mostly published news of local interest with robust sports updates and announcements for club meetings. Legal notices, church news, and social announcements such as marriage anniversaries and personal visits were also published. During World War II, the left-most column on the front page brought…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Marysville, Ohio, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress