The Journal Review is a newspaper based in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA with a circulation of 6,000. It is a daily except Sunday paper and reports national news and news for the surrounding Montgomery County area in print and online.[2] The paper was founded in 1929 as an independent daily from the merger of the Journal and the Review.[3] This small town newspaper has chronicled multiple notable events.
Notable Achievements
In 1879 The Crawfordsville Journal named its only nineteenth century female associate editor, Mary Hannah Krout. She was associate editor for 3 years.[4]
The Crawfordsville Weekly Journal published in 1890 an obituary for Fisher Dougherty, an Abolitionist whose home was a station on the Underground Railroad in Crawfordsville.[5][6]
In 1891 The Crawfordsville Journal reported on the phenomenon known as the Crawfordsville Monster[7]
In 1910 The Crawfordsville Daily Journal reported on Theodore Roosevelt stopping to campaign in Crawfordsville.[8]
In 1918 The Crawfordsville Daily Journal reported on a city-wide parade ex-president William H. Taft lead to officially open a local Bank.[8]
History
1929 Founded as the Crawfordsville Journal and Review with the merger of the two Crawfordsville papers. Owned by H. Foster Fudge[2][9]
Crawfordsville Journal History
1894-1929 Crawfordsville Journal published by Journal Co.[10]
1894-1894 Crawfordsville Daily Journal published by Journal Co.[11]
1894-188? The Daily Journal published by T.H.B. McCain[12]
^Miller, John (1982). Indiana Newspaper Bibliography: Historical Accounts of All Indiana Newspapers Published from 1804 to 1980 and Locational Information for All Available Copies, Both Original and Microfilm. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society. pp. 320–322.