Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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PIONEER HISTORY OF INGHIAM COUNTY

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LANSING'S FIRST DAILY PAPER WAS FOUR PAGES,
NEARLY ALL POLITICS.
State Republican, First Issued in 1872, Handed Jolts to Austin
Blair.
"See that black flag-has Lansing gone in for piracy?"
"Well, well-sure enough, but didn't you read in the State Republican yesterday how Fire Chief Cottrell had devised a new set
of signals for his fire department. That black flag means that
members of the volunteer force are needed between 'Middle Town'
and North Lansing. At night, in case of need, fire balls will be
thrown aloft."
Maybe this conversation did not actually occur on the streets of
Lansing in August, 1872, but it well might have occurred. Indeed, as the second speaker is here made to explain, the chief of
the fire department did announce the "black flag" and the "fire
balls" in one of the earliest issues of the new daily edition of the
Lansing State Republican, a sort of journalistic grandfather of the
present State Journal. Lansing, on July 30, 1872, saw its first
daily paper, It was four columns wide and about 14 inches long.