The Blackshear Times The Blackshear Times The Blackshear Times is an American weekly newspaper founded in 1889 and published in Blackshear, Georgia. "The Times" is a community newspaper, thus its coverage is primarily centered on the events in Pierce County, Georgia. The current owner and publisher of "The Times" is Robert Williams Jr. The Papers' motto, as printed in the top-center of the front page, is "Liked by Many, Cussed by Some, Read by Them All." The name of weekly newspaper has been "The Blackshear Times" since October 10, 1889. Exactly who came up with the name is not known, although E.Z. Byrd
The Illustrated London News Stamp Act that taxed newspapers), it sold 200,000 copies per week. Competitors soon began to appear: "Lloyd’s Illustrated Paper" was founded later that year, while "Reynold's Newspaper" opened in 1850; both were successful Victorian publications, albeit less successful than "The Illustrated London News". Andrew Spottiswoode's "Pictorial Times" lost £20,000 before it was sold to Ingram by Henry Vizetelly, who had left the "ILN" to found it. Ingram folded it into another purchase, "The Lady's Newspaper", which became "The Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times". Vizetelly was also behind a later competitor, "Illustrated Times" in 1855, which was similarly bought out by