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Olney Daily Mail

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Newspaper in Olney, Illinois

Olney Daily Mail
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Gannett
Editor	Mark Allen
Sports editor	Justin Hatten (2006)^[1]
Founded	1910
Headquarters	206 South Whittle Avenue, Olney, Illinois 62450^[2] United States
Circulation	4330 (1999)
OCLC number	13344059
Website	olneydailymail.com

TheOlney Daily Mail is an Americandaily newspaper published inOlney, Illinois, and coveringRichland County.^[3] The newspaper does not publish a Sunday edition.^[3] The current title began publication in 1910, at which time it supplanted or absorbed parts of four other newspapers.^[3] As of September 1999^[update], the paper had a circulation of 4,330.^[4]

In 1998, then ownerHollinger International sold the newspaper toLeonard Green & Partners as part of a 40% overall divestment of Hollinger's United States newspaper holdings;^[5]^[6] the newspaper was published through Leonard Green'sLiberty Group Publishing.^[4]^[7] Liberty Group Publishing was subsequently sold in 2005 toFortress Investment Group and renamed toGateHouse Media.^[6]

Among newspapers noted as predecessors to theDaily Mail isOlney Times, which was published weekly on Fridays and began circulation c. 1856.^[3]^[8] In November 1857, a note to readers of the OlneyRepublican indicated that they would henceforth receiveOlney Times instead, indicating the termination of the former periodical.^[9] The slogan forOlney Times was "Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty."^[8]

References

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^Akouris, Tina (February 3, 2006). "Johnson makes Olney place to be".Chicago Sun-Times.
^"Olney Daily Mail". Olney Chamber of Commerce. RetrievedJuly 10, 2015.
^^a ^b ^c ^d"About The Olney daily mail. (Olney, Ill.) 1910-current".Chronicling America. Library of Congress. RetrievedJuly 10, 2015.
^^a ^bRoberts, Gene; Kunkel, Thomas; Layton, Charles, eds. (2001).Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering.Fayetteville:University of Arkansas Press. p. 56.ISBN 1610752325.OCLC 606535291. RetrievedJuly 10, 2015 – via Internet Archive (preview).
^Staff (November 25, 1997)."Tycoon Selling Papers".The Herald-News. Joliet, Illinois. Archived fromthe original on September 24, 2015. RetrievedJuly 10, 2015.
^^a ^bStaff (May 16, 2005)."Liberty sold to another investment firm".NewsInc. Archived fromthe original on September 24, 2015. RetrievedJuly 10, 2015.
^Kirk, Jim (November 25, 1997)."Hollinger Will Sell Bunch Of Its Papers".Chicago Tribune. RetrievedJuly 10, 2015.
^^a ^b"Olney Times header".Olney Times. November 6, 1857. RetrievedJuly 26, 2015 – viaNewspapers.com.
^Staff (November 6, 1857)."The subscribers of the Olney Republican..."Olney Times. RetrievedJuly 26, 2015 – viaNewspapers.com.