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Obituary of artist Thomas W. Bankes in the Gazette on 29 March 1906. During Reconstruction, a competitor arose by various names, under various editors, and with several different owners. In 1878, J.N. Smithee bought the newspaper, changed its name to the Arkansas Democrat, and went after lucrative state printing contracts held by the Gazette.
Completed in 1876 and home to Jacob Shinn's mercantile business, the Shinn Building is the oldest building in Russellville and its first brick building. Jacob Lawson Shinn (October 3, 1826—August 17, 1899) [ 1 ] was a prosperous and influential mid to late-nineteenth-century leader in Russellville , Pope County , Arkansas .
The Fort Smith Times began publishing in December 1884 as an afternoon newspaper. The Fort Smith News Record, established in the spring of 1893, was also an afternoon publication. The Southwest American, a morning daily, began publishing in 1907. In July 1909, the Times and the News Record merged as the Fort Smith Times Record.
WEHCO Media, Inc., based in Little Rock, AR is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers, cable television systems, and internet service. Walter E. Hussman Jr. (born 1947), is the president. Hussmann is the grandson of Clyde E. Palmer, whose media holdings formed the basis of WEHCO Media. WEHCO is an acronym for ...
Harry Jacob Lemley (August 6, 1883 – March 5, 1965) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
It connected Russellville to other towns in the area, and ran eventually from Ft. Smith to Little Rock, connecting other river valley towns such as Morrilton, Conway, Atkins, London, and facilitating trade among them. Russellville's first newspaper, the Herald, was founded in 1870. By 1876, the town boasted a population of approximately 800 ...
Pope County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 63,381. [2] The county seat is Russellville. [3] The county was formed on November 2, 1829, from a portion of Crawford County and named for John Pope, the third governor of the Arkansas Territory.
It has been published since 1806, fourteen years after Kentucky became a state. Russellville is the county seat of Logan County. The current title was formed with the merging of The Logan County News and The Democrat in 1911. Then in 1968, employees of the News-Democrat started a paper called The Logan Leader. A few months later, this was ...