1919: Hudson Post and Gazette consolidate

Stanley Stone was a Medina boy, who had worked for newspapers in Alma,  Adrian, and  in Detroit. In 1903, he  came back to Hudson to work at the Hudson Gazette, founded by W.T.B. Schemerhorn back in 1858, In 1907,  he made arrangements to purchase the paper, with a partner, Pierce Bland. On November 1, the two took over the Gazette. Bland soon moved on to other things, but Stone stayed with the paper, then located on the corner of Market and Main Streets.

For many years, Hudson had been a two-newspaper town; the Hudson Post, with offices on Main Street near the corner of Lane Street, had also been published by Charles Steurwald, and it would continue that way for many years. Along the way, the two papers had had some epic battles in those days before radio and television, for often they'd come down on opposite sides of an issue.

By 1919, however, Steurwald was ready to retire. He made an arrangement with E.T. Armstrong, former publisher of the Morenci Observer, to sell the newspaper.

Stone knew that Steurwald wouldn't be interested in a combination, but Armstrong was. On March 25, 1919, the papers combined. The combined paper, the Hudson Post-Gazette would be published twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. It was agreed that the papers would use the Post's quarters.

In those days, the papers were all made up of hot metal and hand set type, and published on the premises with a sheet-fed press. Getting out two papers a week was a big job, and took a lot more people than it does today. To stay busy, Stone also published The Log Cabin News at Manitou Beach, the Onsted News, and the Pittsford Reporter.

The Post-Gazette  continued as a semi-weekly publication all through the 1920s and 1930s, and only reverted to once-a-week publication with the paper shortages early in World War II.

                  
In the late 1920s, another Medina man, Stone's niece's husband, Harvey Potter, came to work for Stone at the Post-Gazette as a printer. In 1947, Stone retired, and Potter became publisher  with Roy Allen as editor, which continued for a couple years before Allen left to join the Saginaw News.

In 1956, the old quarters on Main Street was left for a new office building that was constructed on Market Street, which offered concrete floors for the heavy press equipment together with the ease of handling newsprint. The paper was printed at the Market Street site for another decade,  when "letterpress" printing, involving cast type, sometimes set by hand, was beginning to become a thing of the past. After over a century of being printed on site, the paper began to be printed outside the shop, and continues in that manner today, with Harvey Potter's son, Edward, continuing a family tradition of over 90 years of operating Hudson's newspaper.

   Serving the community since 1858 through its connection with the Hudson Gazette, and since 1919 under the present name, the Post-Gazette is far and away the oldest operating business in Hudson today, and is preparing to serve Hudson in a third century. 

   THE HUDSON GAZETTE OFFICE - date is uncertain