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The Republican newspaper officially turns 133 today, March 4. The first issue of the newspaper was published by James Hayden on March 4, 1877. The paper has been produced every week since.
The newspaper was launched by Hayden in that year, and was named in honor of the recently slain Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president. Hayden was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in the Union Army.
The paper was purchased in 1890 by Benjamin H. Sincell, who published his first issue on his 20th birthday in that year. It has been in the Sincell family since that time, with just four editors in its history: Hayden; B.H. Sincell until 1946, then George Hanst (brother of Elsie Hanst Sincell), who was editor from 1946 until 1977; and then Donald Sincell, editor from 1977 to the present.
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