The ''Chillicothe Gazette'' is

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in Cincinnati.

History

On November 9, 1793, William Maxwell published the first edition of ''The Centinel of the Northwest Territory,'' a weekly newspaper in

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. It was the first paper published in the

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. Subscription was "250 cents" per annum, and 7 cents a single copy. The motto of the ''Centinel'': "Open to all Parties -- but influenced by none," expressed the publisher's aims: to afford an isolated community a medium to make known its varied wants and to record local happenings, as well as those of the outside world. The newspaper was published weekly until June 1796 when it was sold to Edmund Freeman who merged it with ''Freeman's Journal''. Around 1800, the paper moved to

, when the government of the

relocated to that city The paper eventually assumed the name ''The Chillicothe Gazette''. Gannett sold the paper in the 1990s to

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, who in turn sold to

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. When Thomson exited the newspaper business in the late 1990s, Gannett bought it back.

References

External links

''Chillicothe Gazette'' official site

Official mobile website
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