The Lancaster New Era was founded in 1877 with the goal of taking the state Republican machine to task. In 1920, "New Era" merged with another Republican newspaper, "The Examiner". Paul Block Sr. bought the "New Era-Examiner" three years later and positioned it to compete with the morning "Intelligencer" and afternoon "New Journal", both published by the Steinmans. When the venture failed in 1928, Block sold the paper, now named "New Era", to the Steinmans, who merged the "Intell" and "Journal" into the morning "Intelligencer Journal" and published "New Era" as an afternoon newspaper on every day of the week except Sunday. The Saturday edition was eliminated in 2007 and associated content moved to the Saturday-morning edition of "Intell".