Talk:Berliner Journal

Sic
I found a hilarious 1915 letter to the editor in the course of my research: "We dont want Kiser Williams paper in canada we want King George papers we dont want Kiser too rool in Ontario we have inglish paper too find out whats going on. You better get out too Germany there you can print what you like." I'm wondering about how to utilize Sic here, given that it becomes difficult to read when they are added after every mistake. "We dont [sic] want Kiser Williams [sic] paper in canada  [sic] we want King George papers we dont  [sic] want Kiser  [sic] too  [sic] rool  [sic] in Ontario we have inglish  [sic] paper  [sic] too  [sic] find out whats  [sic] going on. You better get out too  [sic] Germany there you can print what you like." Thoughts?  Tkbrett  (✉) 00:06, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps a note saying "printed as in original". What an interesting little artifact of that time. Julius177 (talk) 01:04, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

The closure of the Ontario Journal
In my research, I have run into discrepancies among sources about when the Ontario Journal closed. I figured I would summarize them here in the hopes that a grad student studying this newspaper in a decade digs a little deeper and can clarify what happened.

I went to the Kitchener Public Library and found the microfilm of the 25 December 1918 Ontario Journal piece "Past and Future". Here are some excerpts: "We had about twelve hours time to get out the first English issue of the Journal. But we got it out. And – we are still on the job. New readers are pouring in at such a rate that the Journal will stay on the job and will without doubt become bigger, better and more influential than ever. If any individual or any newspaper ever thought that the prohibition of the German language would put the Ontario Journal out of existence, well – it's up to that individual or that newspaper to think again!... The Ontario Journal, by the change of language, in some respects has become a new newspaper.... Possibly, the experience of the Ontario Journal in 1918 is the beginning of greater things, and thus the present loss may prove to be a blessing in disguise...."

Here's what I make of everything: an Order in Council passed on 25 September 1918 prohibiting the publication of newspapers in German. The last German-language issue of the Ontario Journal came out on 2 October, running its first English-only issue a week later on 9 October. The News Record acquired the Journal, or W. J. Motz and W. D. Euler bought the News Record, in late 1918 or early 1919. The Journal continued to be published under that name until 1924, though the content of the two papers was identical.

I haven't been able to find any source laying this out clearly, but have pieced it together as best I can. I can't put this in the article because it would swerve into original research, but I hope that this can help clarify things for any confused PhD candidate.  Tkbrett  (✉) 19:03, 25 June 2021 (UTC)