The Daily Independent (Ashland newspaper) Independent" and "The Sunday Independent" namesake, following a redesign. Colonel B.F. Forgey, an Ohio native who bought half an interest in the paper in 1910, is credited with guiding the paper's growth until his death in 1952. The newspaper continued to be privately owned until Ottaway Community Newspapers bought it in 1979, selling it to CNHI in 2002. The circulation in 1920 was 3,500 but increased to 17,000 by 1954 and peaked at 25,000 in 1980. The Daily Independent (Ashland newspaper) The Daily Independent (also known as The Sunday Independent and formerly known as The Independent from 2003 to 2015)
The Daily Telegraph (Launceston) editor-in-chief in October 1927 in the hope of reviving the paper's circulation, sued the managing director A. C. Ferrall for not giving him three months' notice of termination of contract. This newspaper has been digitised from microfilm for the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Project of the National Library of Australia and may be searched using Trove. The Daily Telegraph (Launceston) The Daily Telegraph was a newspaper published in Launceston, Tasmania between 1883 and 1928. The first issue appeared on 18 June 1883., and the last issue appeared on 28 March 1928 With the imminent demise of the "Telegraph", "The Mercury" of