[3] Its first issue was put together "on an old-fashioned hand press" by Ridenbaugh, "with a boy as assistant.
On December 1, 1874, the newspaper came into the hands of the Gazette Printing Company, with Francis M. Tufts as president, George W. Bell as secretary and treasurer, and J.B. Maynard, editor-in-chief.
Chris L. Rutt was working at the Gazette when he invented and trademarked Aunt Jemima ready-mix pancake mix.
Unable to make it profitable he sold the trademark and recipe to the Davis Milling Company which turned it into a national phenomenon.
In 1924, Clyde Robert Bulla was among 100 third-place winners in a contest on the theme "A Grain of Wheat.
Bradley bought the papers outright and they were rolled into the News-Press & Gazette Company.