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Monroe Evening Times Forges City News Era in 1898
The Monroe Evening Times was founded by Emery A. Odell on Oct 13 1898 in a crowded Monroe market with no subscribers initial capital secured by 20 local signers. It faced early trials including a 1899 fire and later expanded with linotype in 1908 and United Press wire service in 1910 while Odell also served as Monroe postmaster from 1910 to 1925. The paper grew amid competition and political involvement shaping local journalism.
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Monroevening’ Times
Emery A. Odell
Monroe Jurnalism
Uique
Dailyournal
Weekly Times
ournal-Gazette
Sentinel
Green County Herald
Daily Journal
Odell
Woodle
Monroe
Wisconsin
New
Monroe Evening Times
Milwaukee
New Evening Times
The
Times
A. S. Douglas
Colin W. Wright
Fred T. Odell
Rockford
Paul A. Ruf
Fitzgibbons
Emery Odell
Evening Times
Robert LaFollette
Star of Reform
the Times
Linotype
Chicago
United Press
William Howard Taft
Isaac Stephenson
Wilson
Howard W. Chadwick
Job Printing Department
Monroe Field
Sentinel of Liberty
Texas
Monroe Sales Co
Chadwick
International News Service
Janesville
John W
Mary Christina Lincks Odell
Weekly Gazette
Carson
Washington
Express
Madison
Morning Times
Typographical Union Chapel
Mooning Times
Green County
Amelia Burgy
Jacob and
Barbara Luchsinger Burgy
Switzerland
Washington Township
Courthouse Square
LaFollette
U.S.A
Post
Lincoln
Neb
Rockey
W. F. Schwind
Third
Nebraska Volunteers
Col. W. J. Bryan
Jacksonville
Bryan
Schwind
Enocess
Newsen
Rock Grove
Stephenson County
John A. Chambers
Democrat
Freeport
Bulletin