Staunton Spectator and Vindicator

• id: 435
• end_date: until sometime in 1916
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 100
• proprietors: Rudolph Samuel Turk
• start_date: September 9, 1896
• variant_number: Staunton 06-22
• notes: On September 5, 1896, Turk purchased the press office and subscriber list of the Staunton Vindicator, then published by Henry C. Tinsley and Arthur S. Morton; he then merged the papers under the new title of Spectator and Vindicator, with Morton serving as business agent for the combination and the terminally-ill Tinsley retiring from journalism; the first number of the united journal then issued on September 9, 1896.
  Turk continued to edit the paper for rest of its life; yet, he started to divest his interest in the weekly in November 1910 by selling controlling interest to Harold E. West of the Baltimore Sun; West sold out to a local group called the Staunton Spectator Corp. in April 1911, which continued as paper's owner until publication ceased sometime in 1916. It remains unclear just how long Morton remained a part of the combined effort.
• lineage_title: Republican Farmer
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