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Illinois Newspaper Directory and HistoryPEORIA JOURNAL-TRANSCRIPT: Consolidated 1916 by Henry Means Pindell.Published by the Peoria Journal-Transcript, Inc. Mrs. Henry M. Pindell, president.Carl P. Slane, vice president and treasurer. Merle Slane, secretary. F. A. Stowe, editorin-chief.Owned by the Estate of Henry M. Pindell, Carl P. Slane, and Merle Slane.Peoria, population, 104,78 8. County seat of Peoria County,c p slocated on the Illinois River, 160 miles southwest of Chicago. Railroadcenter. Barge line terminal. Manufactures commercial solvents,Caterpillar tractors, lawn sprinklers, washing machines, maleproducts, agricultural implements, food products, clothing, barrels,paper goods, furnaces, oil burners, candies, cereals, stock feeds, steel,and wire fence. Beef and pork packing plants. Large grain elevators.In the heait of a coal mining region. Bradley PolytechnicInstitute.The Peoria Journal, the Peoria Transcript, and the SundayJournal-Transcript are pioneers in the newspaper field in Peoriaand Central Illinois. The final consolidation of the papers waseffected in 1916 by Henry M. Pindell, veteran owner, editor, andpublisher who had been associated with the upbuilding of the PeoriaTranscript, the Peoria Journal, and the Peoria Herald, which have, through successivemergers, contributed to the present organization. The Transcript was founded in 185 5by William Rousenville and N. C. Nasan. The Journal, an afternoon paper, wasestablished in 1877 by J. B. Barnes and E. F. Baldwin. Mr. Pindell, who had come toPeoria in 1889, founded the Peoria Herald and purchased the Transcript, consolidatingthe two. In 1900 he sold them and purchased the Journal, buying back the Herald-Transcript in 1916 to organize the present afternoon and evening papers and the combinedSunday paper. From 1916 the papers entered on their greater period of expansion.In 1920, the present large, and very modern newspaper plant was occupied bythe Pindell papers, and since then it has been enlarged and further improved. Followingthe death of Mr. Pindell in 1924, it was found that a will created a trust estateof the Journal and the Transcript, which is now known as the Peoria Journal-Transcript,Inc.Circulation, (Journal-Transcript) 39,778, (Sunday) 37,022.Advertising rare: local, 10c per line; foreign, 10c per line.Subscription rate: local, s,9.00; foreign, $10.00.PECATONICA NEWS: Established 1872 by Willi,Gilbert F. Colby, editor and publisher since 1904.Pecatonica, population, 1152. Located in Winnebago County,14 miles west of Rockford. C. & N. W. R.R. Milk condensary.Diversified farming.The News has been in the Colby family for the 5 years ofits existence. It was first owned by the firm of Colby Brothers,Nate L. Colby succeeding the firm in 18 80. Gilbert F. Colby,the present owner, succeeded his father in 1904. The News ispublished weekly, with publication on Friday. It is Republican inpolitics.Circulation, 1000.Advertising rate: local, 25c; foreign, 25c.Subscription rate: local, s2.00; foreign, s2.00.A. and Nate L. Colby.454