HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-06-29, Page 35SHOWING HORSES AT THE REVIVAL OF THE CALEDONIAN GAMES 1910
Brief history of Sentinel
With 1874 The Sentinel was born, the
initial number having been issued the
first week in January of that year. The
founders were two enterprising young
men, themselves practical printers, who
came to Lucknow from Kincardine -
Messrs. Bowers and Hunt. The office
was first located in Mr. Graham's Block
on Campbell Street. The new enterprise
appears to have met with a favorable
reception, Mr. Robert Graham and
others taking an active part in promot-
ing a circulation. In its first form The
Sentinel was a modest five column, four
page sheet, and like all beginnings of
that day was printed on a Washington
press.
The founders did not long remain in
possession. the business passing, after
a year or more, into the hands of D. B.
Boyd. Mr. Boyd moved the plant across
the street into a frame building which it
was destined to occupy for three decad-
es. In the third year after taking poses-
sion Boyd died. His widow, however,
continued the business until her marri-
age to Mr. James Bryan who had been
in charge of the mechanical depart-
ment. Mr. Bryan's connection with The
Sentinel, as editor and proprietor,
lasted above a quarter of a century,
until October of 1906 when he sold out
to the late Mr..1. Albert MacGregor. He
had enlarged the paper to eight pages
with six columns to the page, and
imprc ved the plant by the addition of a
Campbell cylinder press. Mr. Mac-
Gregor moved the plant to the premises
which it now occupies on the corner of
Campbell and Wheelock .streets. In the
summer of 1908 Mr. .1. L. Naylor, B.A.
became proprietor. Not being a pract-
A. D. McKENZIE
ical printer, Mr. Naylor gave more
attention to the literary side of the
business than had any of his predec-
essors and a marked improvement was
the result. He also enlarged the page to
seven columns. But Mr. Naylor did not
take kindly to the various vexations and
worries of a newspaper publisher and
with the close of 1909 terminated his
journalistic career, by selling the paper
to the present publisher who is also
proprietor of The Tceswater News.
Being occupied with the Teeswater
business, Mr. Mckenzie has delegated
a large measure of the editing of the
Sentinel and the conducting of the
business generally to Mr. W. J. Wraith.
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