The Nevada Appeal is a twice-weekly newspaper published in Carson City, Nevada . It is the state's oldest newspaper and owned by Pacific Publishing Company .
6-622: The Carson Daily Appeal. was first published in on May 16, 1865. It was founded by E.F. McElwain, J. Barrett and Marshall Robinson and edited by Henry Rust Mighels . Mighels and Robinson bought the paper in November 1865 and ran it until December 1870. After the sale, the paper was renamed to the Daily State Register . In September 1872, Mighels started the New Daily Appeal with help from John P. Jones . Robinson and Mighels joined forces
12-633: A month after the November election to buy and merge the Daily State Register into the New Daily Appeal. In 1873, Mighels dropped the "New" from the masthead and it became the Daily Appeal. In May 1877, the Daily Appeal became the Morning Appeal , switching back to the Daily Appeal in May 1906. The name was changed again in 1947 to the Nevada Appeal. Mighels became the paper's sole owner in 1878 and died
18-535: A year later from stomach cancer. His wife Nellie Verill Mighels ran the Appeal until she married the paper's editor Sam Davis in 1880. In 1948, the newspaper was sold to George H. Payne. Three years later the paper was sold again to a company headed by R. E. Carpenter. In 1993, the Appeal was sold by the Donrey Media Group to three of its executives. They sold it to Swift Communications in 1995. In July 2018,
24-658: The Appeal reduced its print schedule from six to two days a week: Wednesdays and Saturdays. On April 16, 2019, an edition of the Appeal was found during the opening of a time capsule from 1872 in the cornerstone of a demolished Masonic lodge in Reno . On August 1, 2019, Swift sold the Appeal and its sister publications ( The Record-Courier , the Lahontan Valley News and Northern Nevada Business View ) to Pacific Publishing Company . Henry Rust Mighels Henry Rust Mighels (November 5, 1830 – May 27, 1879)
30-633: Was an American journalist and politician. A writer of the Sagebrush School , he was the editor and publisher of Carson City, Nevada 's Nevada Appeal . He was born in Norway, Maine . He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War as assistant adjutant general, with the rank of captain, and was wounded in action. In 1868, he was elected State Printer and served a two-year term. In 1876, he
36-768: Was elected to the Nevada Assembly , serving as Speaker in 1877. The following year, he ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada . He was also an artist, painting still life and landscapes. His one book, Sage Brush Leaves (1879), consists of literary essays. He died of cancer in 1879 in Carson City and is buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery next to his wife Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis (who subsequently married Samuel Post Davis ). The Mighels had three sons, including Henry R. Mighels Jr. and Philip Verrill Mighels ; and two daughters. Henry J. Mighels Jr. took over as editor of
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