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The Morning Press was founded by William J. Sproat and appeared on Monday, September 1, 1890. Sproat was its proprietor until November 5, 1891, when control passed to the Press Publishing company. Soon after, the controlling interest in the company was purchased by George G. Booth, who in 1892 bought the rival Grand Rapids Eagle and merged it ...
MLive Media Group, originally known as Booth Newspapers, or Booth Michigan, is a media group that produces newspapers in the state of Michigan.Founded by George Gough Booth with his two brothers, Booth Newspapers was sold to Advance Publications, a Samuel I. Newhouse property, in 1976.
The Grand Rapids Press is the daily newspaper, while Advance Newspapers publishes a group of weekly papers providing more community-based news. Gemini Publications is a niche, regional publishing company that produces the weekly newspaper Grand Rapids Business Journal, the magazines Grand Rapids Magazine, Grand Rapids Family and Michigan Blue, and several other quarterly and annual business-to ...
Edwin F. Sweet — U.S. Congressman, mayor of Grand Rapids [16] Jerald terHorst — press secretary under President Gerald Ford; Edwin F. Uhl — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State ; mayor of Grand Rapids [16] Arthur H. Vandenberg — 88th President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate [26] Guy Vander Jagt — U.S. Congressman from Michigan [27]
The Lakeshore Press is an edition of The Grand Rapids Press which competes with The Holland Sentinel in southwestern Ottawa County, Michigan, primarily in Holland, Michigan. It has been published since the mid-1980s when it was known as The Grand Rapids Press-Lakeshore Edition.
Van Allsburg based the story on a mental image of a child wandering into the woods on a foggy night and wondering where a train was headed. [4]At the premiere of the film, Van Allsburg stated that Pere Marquette 1225, a 2-8-4 Berkshire N-1 class steam locomotive, formerly owned by the Michigan State University and now owned by the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, was the inspiration for ...
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
The Muskegon Chronicle is a daily newspaper in Muskegon, Michigan, owned by MLive Media Group.It was founded in 1857. Because of common ownership with Grand Rapids Press, the Chronicle ' s coverage and distribution focuses on Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, and Ottawa County north of the Grand River, while the Press focuses on Kent, Ottawa (south of the Grand River), and Allegan counties.