Journal Gazette & Times-Courier

Journal Gazette & Times-Courier

The Courier, Charleston's inaugural newspaper, was launched in 1840. In 1966, Betty Boyer, a former employee of The Courier, established the Daily Times. Just two years later, in 1968, she led the merging of the two publications to form the Times-Courier. In Mattoon, the Weekly Independent Gazette was founded in 1856, followed by the Mattoon Journal in 1865. These two publications joined forces in 1905. In 1971, Howard Publications acquired both the Journal Gazette and the Times-Courier. Then, in April 2002, Lee Enterprises took over all 16 newspapers owned by Howard Publications.

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#460799

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#99975

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  • 1 day ago | jg-tc.com | Eileen Ogintz

    Let’s hear it for ambitious kids!A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter’s archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling. For years, he’d been searching unsuccessfully for the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the “boy king,” who died as a teenager. His patron, George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, and an avid collector of Egyptian antiquities, told Carter he was cutting off his funding after the season.

  • 2 days ago | jg-tc.com | Eric Gay

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  • 2 days ago | jg-tc.com | Mark Schiefelbein

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  • 2 days ago | jg-tc.com | Katelyn Metzger

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  • 2 days ago | jg-tc.com | John Locher

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