Charles Holt purchased the Janesville "Free Press," united it with the Janesville "Gazette," and began publishing a daily morning paper called "The Daily Morning Gazette."

The evidence

• “July 4, 1854, a six-column daily was issued, but at the end of three months was suspended. In March, 1857, Mr. Holt bought the "Janesville Free Press," consolidating it with the "Gazette," and began the publication of a morning daily of seven columns, and for some time subsequently the weekly issue was called the "Gazette and Free Press."”

  1908-brown-rock-county/24-janesville-press.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 536 / book p. 497

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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