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232 1841, Richards sold the paper to Josiah A. Noolan, who changed its name to The Courier. The latter was succeeded by The Wisconsin.

Pioneer papers were invariably begun as weeklies, but even then they were often irregular in appearance. Such was the case of The Green Bay Intelligencer, the first paper in Wisconsin Territory, begun on December 11, 1833, by John V. Suydam and Albert Ellis. The following year the latter, becoming the sole proprietor, continued as publisher until. June 1, 1835, when he accepted C. P. Arndt as a partner. In August, 1836, The Intelligencer united with The Wisconsin Free Press, which had been in existence just a year and was the second paper in Wisconsin, to form The Democrat. In the spring of 1840 the paper last mentioned went to Kenosha, where it was published as The Telegraph.

Kansas ever has been, and is, a great newspaper State. Its journalism, in the strict sense of that term, dates from March 1, 1835, when there appeared at the Baptist Mission The Shawanoe Sun. Published exclusively in the Indian language, it was a small quarter-sheet edited by the Reverend Johnston Lykins and printed on the Mission press by Jotham Meeker. In the spring of 1837, when Meeker went to the Ottawa Mission in Franklin County, the paper was printed by J. G. Pratt until 1839, when it was discontinued on account of the illness of its publisher. The old-fashioned press of the Mission was later taken to Prairie City and used to print The Freeman's Champion first issued on June 25, 1857, in a home-made tent, the gift of the women of that place.

The earliest English newspaper in Kansas was The Kansas Weekly Herald, first brought out in Leavenworth on September 15, 1854, by Osborn Adams. It was started before there was a single permanent building in Leavenworth: only four temporary tents had been raised before a type-setter was at work, under an old elm tree, on the first number. An editorial remark in the first issue said: "Our editorials have been written and our proof corrected while sitting on the ground with a big shingle