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Do you know??? Hamlet News Messenger last edition
Posted: Thu July 28, 2011, 7:49 pm
by David
Do you know when the last issue was published?
Posted: Thu July 28, 2011, 8:12 pm
by Bruce Brown
Last issue was in 1973, I think. Don't know the month and day.
Posted: Fri July 29, 2011, 10:14 am
by Malcolm McLellan
Paper was sold in 1976 to the publisher of the Richmond
County Daily Journal and ceased publication as The
Hamlet News Messenger in 1993.
Posted: Sat July 30, 2011, 6:47 am
by David
That's not the information I have. I will post info soon.
Posted: Sat July 30, 2011, 2:13 pm
by Malcolm McLellan
According to the Library Of Congress records it
ceased operation on Jan. 18, 1995.
Posted: Sat July 30, 2011, 5:44 pm
by Bill Dennis
Around 1973 or 1974 [ I don't remember which] Barney Martin sold the The Hamlet News - Messenger to a newspaper group with mostly weekly papers out of S.C. and Ga., they changed the name to The Hamlet News,
Edward Sweatt from Cheraw, S.C. was one of the owners, The Publisher was Kelvin Mackey from Cheraw and Roger Simmons was the Editor.
A few years later they sold the paper to J. Neal Cadieu, Jr., who was Owner & Pubisher of The Richmond County Daily Journal at that time.
Posted: Sun July 31, 2011, 1:05 pm
by David
Posted: Mon August 1, 2011, 4:18 pm
by David
I added Bert Ungers closing piece about the News Messenger.
http://ourhamlet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4675