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the Journal office. It was given to the publishing of all the
scandal and abuse of people whom Hines didn't like, and praising
those he did like, with the ultimate result of a paper of this
character, that it died.
The authors of this paper paid no attention to
orthography, rhetoric or grammar and if it were in existence now, it
would be a curiosity.
Another ambitious man was Frank McMichaels who
established the "Searchlight" as an evening paper, which made four
daily papers being published each day in the week except Sunday. The
Searchlight lasted a year and was the first of the dailies to
collapse on account of lack of financial backing. The endorsers of
McMichaels' note took over the junk and sold it as best they could.
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