The ''Intelligencer Journal'', known locally as the ''Intell'', was the daily, morning

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published by Lancaster Newspapers in

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. It is the seventh-oldest newspaper in the United States, and was one of the oldest newspapers to be continually published under the same name. The ''Intelligencer Journal''s editorial page generally leaned to the Democratic/ liberal perspective. The ''Intelligencer'' merged with its sister newspaper, the '' Lancaster New Era'', in 2009. The combined ''Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era'' was rebranded and renamed '' LNP'' in October 2014. The new incarnation of ''LNP'' debuted on October 16, 2014, with a new format and layout.

History

The ''Lancaster Journal'', was founded on June 17, 1794 by William Hamilton and Henry Wilcocks as a 4-page, weekly newspaper. In 1800, Hamilton politically aligned the ''Journal'' with the Federalists after buying out Wilcocks and receiving backing from Robert Coleman. In 1799, William Dickson founded a rival paper, the Jeffersonian ''Lancaster Intelligencer and Weekly Advertiser.'' After a fire in 1811 and Dickson's death in 1823, popularity of the ''Intelligencer'' began to diminish. In January 1820, Hamilton was succeeded by John Huss and Henry Brenner, who worked on the ''Journal'' from its inception. In July 1820, John Reynolds (father of the Civil War general) succeeded Huss and Brenner and turned the ''Journal'' into a Jacksonian paper. In 1834, Hugh Maxwell V bought the ''Journal'' from John Reynolds. Maxwell had previously owned and published the ''Lancaster Gazette and Port-Folio''.

Forney and Steinman

In March 1837 the ''Intelligencer'' was passed to John Weiss Forney from Dickson's widow. Forney took over the ''Intelligencer'' and "turned it around". In September 1839, Forney bought the ''Journal'' from Maxwell and merged it with the ''Intelligencer'' making the ''Intelligencer and Journal''. After Forney left Lancaster in 1845, George Sanderson ran the paper and used it to become mayor of Lancaster. During the

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, circulation fell due to the ''Intelligencer and Journals anti- Republican tone. In August 1864, the paper was changed from a weekly to a daily, evening paper. By the end of the war, circulation was down to only a few hundred. In 1866, Andrew Jackson Steinman reluctantly took control of the paper, with co-owner Henry Smith and attorney William Uhler Hensel actually running the paper. In 1886, Hensel retired and Steinman's nephew Charles Steinman Foltz took his place. In 1909, Steinman and Foltz started the

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''Lancaster Morning Journal'', which they merged with the ''Morning News'' creating the ''News Journal''. Steinman's sons, John Frederick Steinman and James Hale Steinman, took over the ''Intelligencer'' and the ''News Journal'' in 1917 after the death of their father.

Newspaper war

In 1923, Paul Block, Sr. (founder of

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) bought the ''Intelligencers rival paper, the '' Lancaster New Era'' and "vowed to put the ''Intelligencer'' and the ''News Journal'' out of business". Block added a daily, four-page, colored

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section to the ''New Era''. The Steinmans lowered advertising rates and started the ''Sunday News'', the first local Sunday newspaper. Circulation of the ''Intelligencer'' increased from 6,000 to 30,000 in early 1927. The Steinmans then built a new five-story building for the paper on West King Street to show that "they were here to stay". In 1928, Block announced his surrender and offered the ''New Era'' to the Steinmans. They bought the ''New Era'' and merged the ''Intelligencer'' with the ''News Journal'' to create the ''Intelligencer Journal''.

"Intelligencer Journal March"

In 1951, George W. Luttenberger, a local

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, and

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, wrote the "Intelligencer Journal March." Up until the 1960s, the march was played by American

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s, but eventually it fell out of favor. The march was lost until a copy of the

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was found in

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References

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External links

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