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Alpena County

Page history last edited by kevin driedger 15 years, 6 months ago

 

Alpena history

Alpena

Thunder Bay Monitor began publishing on Apr. 30, 1863 by Daniel R. Joslin. In 1866 it changed names to The Alpena County Pioneer.

 

The Alpena County Pioneer began publishing circa 1866 by Albert C. Teft. County dropped from its title in 1883. It was Republican. In 1871, the owner, Albert C. Teft wrote, “Two years ago, when we first took charge of the Pioneer, its proprietors informed us that it had never been a paying institution, but that each succeeding owner had lost money in trying to sustain it.” (pp. 158-159) In 1909 it merged with The Argus to form Alpena Argus-Pioneer.

 

The Alpena Weekly Argus began publishing on June 19, 1871 by M.M. Viall. It was Democratic. It dropped Weekly from its title in 1893. J.C. Viall was editor by this point. The office of the Weekly Argus was destroyed in a fire on July 13, 1872. In 1909 it merged with The Alpena Pioneer to form Alpena Argus-Pioneer

 

The Frolic began publishing on Aug. 11, 1873 by William Boulton. It was independent monthly. It ceased publication on May, 1880. Boulton wrote the first history of Alpena County in 1876.

 

The Alpena Reporter began publishing circa 1871. It was Republican. It became Alpena Evening Reporter, then Alpena Daily Reporter which by 1882 was published by A.F. Dinsmore.

 

The Michigan Labor Journal began publishing circa 1882. It later changed titles to The Labor Journal and in the 1890s to Alpena Journal published by Arthur T. Reed.

 

The Evening Echo began publishing on Apr. 14, 1890 by James Collins and Wm. C. Cunningham. It became Alpena Evening Echo, and Alpena Daily Echo. William. B. Dobson was a later publisher.

 

The Alpena Farmer began publishing circa 1899 by the Alpena Echo Publishing Company

 

The Alpena Evening News began publishing on Aug. 1, 1899 by E.S. Meers. It changed to The Alpena News in 1914.

 

Alpena Argus-Pioneer began publishing on Oct. 6, 1909 by Collins & Ferguson. The Argus and the Pioneer merged with the first issue of the coming out on. were the first publisher of this merged title.

 

The Alpena Press began publishing on June 24, 1927 by O’Brien & Dykema.

 

The Thunder Bay Times began publishing on Sept. 14, 1939 by Murphy.

 

Quote from letter by Daniel R. Joslin (from The Centennial History of Alpena County, Michigan)

“In the year 1862, I was publishing a paper at Port Austin, in Huron county, called the Huron County Reporter. During the winter of 1862 and 1863, hearing of a commencement of a village, at the mouth of Thunder Bay river, and the fine prospects of a large and thriving village, not far in the future; the large amount of pine lands on the river and its branches, and the large amount of lands, which appeared upon the tax rolls, and not satisfied with the prospects of Port Austin, I was induced to correspond and learn the prospects of locating a paper at Alpena. Accordingly I corresponded with. O. T. B. Williams, the Prosecuting Attorney. He took an immediate interest to encourage the enterprise, and so did all the people of the village, which, at that time, contained about 250 inhabitants, and according to their means, subscribed a liberal donation of $200 to aid in establishing the paper. Accordingly, about the 26th of April, 1863, on Sunday, I arrived with my printing office, at Alpena, on the Forest Queen, which anchored out in the bay. Freight was loaded on scows and poled in. The printing office was landed off the scow, on Miller's dock, Sunday, and procuring a room over Miller's store, now the Myers block, and commenced immediately to set up the office, and in order to secure the tax printing, must issue by the 1st day of May, which, by working day and night, with one hand, issued on the last day of April, a twenty column paper, having five columns per page, of 17k inches a column, of which twelve columns were reading matter, called the Thunder Bay Monitor.” (pp. 156-167)

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