The Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building is a historic newspaper printing building located at 409 West C Street in Basin,

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. The building was used to print the ''Basin Republican-Rustler'', Basin's weekly newspaper. The ''Republican-Rustler'' formed from the merger of two newspapers, the ''Rustler'' and the ''Republican''. The ''Rustler'' was founded in 1889 in

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and was the first newspaper in the

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; it was published in Hyattville before moving to Basin in 1900. The ''Republican'' was first printed in 1905 as a political counterpoint to the ''Rustler'', which had affiliated with the

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. The two newspapers merged in 1928, four years after the ''Republican'' had moved into the Printing Building. The building contains a number of historic printing machines, many of which are still operational; its collection includes

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s and an Intertype machine as well as a number of other printing presses and devices used to assemble newspapers. . The building was added to the

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on July 19, 1976.

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