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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Newspaper History

March 26, 1931, Appleton Post-Crescent

None other than George Banta, Jr. gives Rotarians a history of Menasha newspapers.  This article gives a good overview of the history of the news trade in our fair city up to 1931.  If one remembers that the Menasha Record merged with the Neenah-Menasha Daily News-Times in September of 1949 to become the Twin City News-Record, then you've pretty much gotten the entire lesson  Yes, there'd be abortive attempts in future years to create other city newspapers but they didn't last very long.  The Neenah-Menasha edition of the Oshkosh Northwestern, wasn't really a Menasha or Neenah paper per se, but rather the Oshkosh paper wrapped up in Neenah-Menasha indicia while padding itself with a bit more news from the bureau in the Twin Cities.


September 19, 1949, Twin City News-Record

1 comment:

  1. Looks like the "new" Twin City News-Record had some quality issues to work through in their printing process. Perhaps they should have taken on Banta as a consultant! ;-)

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