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The Caldwell County
News publishes two weekly hometown newspapers: The Hamilton Advocate
Edition and the Braymer Bee Edition. The firm L & L Publications,
Inc. publishes the papers, as well as a bi-monthly lifestyle
magazine called “Rural Living” and a shopper, The Pony Express.
Publishers Anne and Marshall Tezon are following a lengthy newspaper
tradition in Caldwell County. The front page of the Hamilton
Advocate lists the volume number as 137, representing 137 years of
publishing. In the 1890s, Hamilton boasted ofthree newspapers. The
Hamilton News opened in 1863 and was absorbed by the News-Graphic in
1877. The Hamiltonian was established in July of 1878 and the
Farmer’s Advocate opened in 1890. All the Hamilton papers were
consolidated in 1919 under the ownership of C. F. Ridings. Three
generations of Ridingses published the paper that consolidated with
two Kingston papers and with the
Breckenridge Bulletin before Anne Chadwick bought the operation in
1985. Chadwick purchased the Braymer Bee from Patty and Leroy Pryor
in 1990. Upon Anne’s marriage to Marshall Tezon in 1995, changes
were made in the newspaper operation. Rural Living was born as a
real estate guide, then changed recently to a lifestyle magazine
covering Northwest Missouri. The Hamilton and Braymer papers began
having common Weekly Record and Classified pages under the
flag of The Caldwell County News while retaining the unique news and
advertising of each of the two communities.
L&L
publications Inc.
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