The ''Macon Chronicle-Herald'' was a

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published in

Macon, Missouri Macon is a city in and the county seat of Macon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 5,457 at the 2020 census. History Macon was platted in 1856. Like the county, Macon was named for Nathaniel Macon. A post office called Macon Cit ...

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. It began publishing in 1910 as the ''Daily Chronicle''. As of 2014, was owned by GateHouse Media. It stopped publishing on July 30, 2014. From 1925 to 1973, the newspaper was owned by Frank P. Briggs, a

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who served as mayor and a member of the

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, and who succeeded

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in the

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. At the end of July, Lewis County Press, which owns the Macon County Home Press, a weekly Macon County newspaper, bought the assets of the 104-year-old Chronicle-Herald from Gatehouse Media Inc., which filed for bankruptcy protection in the fall of 2013.

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