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Out of the Morgue
Four papers keep Great Bend informed in 1894
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All illustrations in 1894 were hand drawn, and there werent many of them. However, two of the four newspapers printing in Great Bend at that time carried regular political cartoons. This week in 1894, the pages were full of accounts of the travels of then Ohio Governor William McKinley who was stumping in favor of his McKinley Tariff. He was well favored in the Republican aligned Great Bend Register, but not so much by the Barton County Democrat and the Barton Beacon, where these cartoons were taken from. - photo by COURTESY PHOTO
Each week we’ll take a step back into the history of Great Bend through the eyes of reporters past. We’ll reacquaint you with what went into creating the Great Bend of today, and do our best to update you on what “the rest of the story” turned out to be.This week is National Newspaper Appreciation Week, and continuing on last weeks Out of the Morgue, we’ll look back at how papers of the past impacted life in Great Bend. By 1894, the number of newspapers being printed in Barton County grew.