TY - JOUR KW - Newspapers AU - John Schmidt AB - A short history of the founding and development of the only weekly newspaper in the Waterloo region to have been independently owned for 125 years. The author describes early printing processes and presents excerpts from past editorials and advertisements. BT - Waterloo Historical Society C1 - Schmidt, James W.; Schmidt, John A.; Schmidt, Alfred; McLean, John A.; Patterson, Robert; Watson, James G.; Robinson, Alfred; MacRae, Alex; Dennis, G.W.; Keyes, William; Lawton, C.W.; Constable, R.; Dawson, George W.; Somerville, James C2 - Ayr News; Ayr Observer C3 - Ayr C4 - 1854-1979 C7 - Unknown(0) DP - Bloomfield, Elizabeth. Waterloo County to 1972: an annotated bibliography of regional history. Kitchener : Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993 ID - 1264 M1 - Journal Article M3 - Print(0) PY - 1979 SP - 20 EP - 25 EP - T1 - History of the {Ayr News} T2 - Waterloo Historical Society VL - 67 ER -