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Timeline of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod


 * Add non-US/Canadian colleges and seminaries
 * Add pre-1872 members stats
 * Start date for Lutheran Church in Southern Africa mission work

t. Paul's College (Missouri) / User:Indyguy/sandbox/St. Paul Lutheran High School (Missouri)

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User:Indyguy/sandbox/Citizens Energy Group

Possible redirects:


 * Indianapolis Gas Light & Coke Company
 * Citizens Gas Light & Coke Company
 * Electric Lighting, Gas Heating and Illuminating Company
 * Indianapolis Natural Gas Company
 * Consumers Gas Trust
 * Broad Ripple Natural Gas
 * Indianapolis Gas Company
 * Citizens Gas Company
 * Citizens Gas & Coke Utility
 * Citizens Gas and Coke Utility
 * Indianapolis Water Company
 * Water Works Company of Indianapolis
 * DigIndy
 * Marion County Sheriff's Office

Possible redirects for AES Indiana:


 * Indianapolis Brush Electric Light and Power Company
 * Jenney Electric Company
 * Marmon–Perry Electric Company
 * IIndianapolis Light and Power Company
 * Marion County Hot Water Heating Company
 * Indianapolis Light and Heat Company
 * Merchants Heat and Light Company
 * Home Heating and Light Company
 * Peoples Light and Heat Company
 * Merchants Public Utility Company
 * Indianapolis Power & Light
 * Indianapolis Power and Light Company
 * IPL Power

Info to be added to E. W. Scripps Company
Year	Month/ Day	Event	Link

1878	Nov 02	Edward Willis Scripps (EWS), 24, started Cleveland Penny Press, with $10,000 borrowed from family members. Cleveland Penny Press

1880	Jul 31	Branched out to St. Louis, starting The Chronicle, a disaster from the start. He let it become a chronic invalid and drain him until it was sold in 1908. St. Louis Chronicle

1881	November	EWS, bothered by bronchial ailment, took sister Ellen and began year-and-a-half tour of Europe and Mediterranean.

1883	Jan 01	EWS acquired control of Cincinnati Penny Post from his brother James, who had purchased it in 1881. Cincinnati Penny Post

1883	June	EWS returned to United States from Europe.

1890	Sep 02	Changed name of Penny Post to The Cincinnati Post. The Cincinnati Post

1890	Sep 15	Started The Kentucky Post, across Ohio River from Cincinnati. The Kentucky Post

1890	December	EWS visited California, bought desert acreage near San Diego and began eight-year construction of Miramar ranch.

1890	Fall	Created Scripps-McRae League to run his newspapers.

1892	Jun 03	EWS acquired his first paper on Pacific Coast, The San Diego Sun. The San Diego Sun

1895	March	Started the Los Angeles Record	Los Angeles Record

1896	Dec 23	Acquired the Kansas City World. Kansas City World

1899	Feb 25	Started Seattle Star. Seattle Star

1899	Sep 21	Started the Akron Press. Akron Press

1900	Apr 11	Started the Chicago Press. Chicago Press

1902	Jun 02	Started Newspaper Enterprise Association feature service.

1902	Jun 07	Acquired the Des Moines News. Des Moines News

1902	Nov 07	Started the Spokane Press. Spokane Press

1903	Mar 21	Started the San Francisco News. San Francisco News

1903	Jun 08	Acquired Toledo News-Bee. Toledo News-Bee

1903	Dec 21	Started Tacoma Times. Tacoma Times

1904	Jul 02	Acquired Columbus Citizen. Columbus Citizen

1904	Nov 21	Started Sacramento Star. Sacramento Star

1905	Aug 31	Started Fresno Tribune. Fresno Tribune

1906	Apr 26	Started Denver Express. Denver Express

1906	Jul 02	Started Evansville Press. Evansville Press

1906	Jul 21	EWS purchased Publisher's Press; merged with Scripps- McRae Press Association and Scripps News Associations into United Press, though this did not become effective until June 21, 1907. 1906	Sep 01	Started Pueblo Sun. Pueblo Sun

1906	Sep 10	Started Terre Haute Post. Terre Haute Post

1906	Sep 18	Started Dallas Dispatch. Dallas Dispatch

1906	Sep 29	Started Portland News. Portland News

1906	Oct 01	Started Oklahoma News. Oklahoma News

1906	Nov 01	Started Memphis Press. Memphis Press

1906	Dec 01	Started Nashville Times. Nashville Times

1907	Aug 01	Acquired Berkeley Independent. Berkeley Independent

1908	Feb	EWS "retired" turning over business management to son Jim, 22, but keeping hand in with his editors. 1909	May 03	Started Oakland Mail. Oakland Mail

1911	Sep 25	Started Houston Press. Houston Press

1911	Sep 28	Started Chicago Daybook. Chicago Daybook

1911		Started United Press (later known as United Press International, or UPI).

1912	May 11	Started Philadelphia News-Post. Philadelphia News-Post

1917	November	EWS suffered stroke and went to Florida to recuperate and learned the pleasure of living on a yacht, which he did most of the rest of his life.

1917		EWS went to Washington to supervise coverage and editorial treatment of World War I. Jim became angry over EWS's insistence that Robert P. Scripps become editor-in-chief (and because of other business differences broke away from his father and used his and his associates' stock positions to break off five West Coast papers and the Dallas Dispatch).

1920		EWS withdrew from management of his many enterprises, and made Robert P. Scripps and Roy W. Howard responsible for editorial and business direction, respectively.

1921	Jan 21	Started Birmingham Post which later merged with the Herald to become the Birmingham Post-Herald. The paper ceased publication on Sept 23, 2005 when the economics of publishing the newspaper were no longer favorable. Birmingham Post Birmingham Herald Birmingham Post-Herald

1921	Jun 13	Started Norfolk Post. Norfolk Post

1921	Oct 03	Started Fort Worth Press. Fort Worth Press

1921	Nov 08	Started The Washington Daily News. Washington Daily News

1921	Nov 21	Started The Knoxville News. Knoxville News

1922	Feb 01	Acquired Youngstown Telegram. Youngstown Telegram

1922	May 27	Acquired Indianapolis Times. Indianapolis Times

1922	Jun 22	Scripps motto "Give light and the people will find their own way" first used. (Lighthouse emblem added in May 1927.)

1922	Aug 21	Started El Paso Post. El Paso Post

1922	Nov 03	Change of name from Scripps-McRae to Scripps Howard announced. Roy Wilson Howard (RWH) assumed joint editorial direction of papers with Robert P. Scripps.

1922	Nov 22	Started Baltimore Post. Baltimore Post

1922	Nov 23	The E.W. Scripps Trust was created.

1922		United Feature Service was organized (and a year later United Newspictures, forerunner of Acme Newspictures, was started).

1923	Jul 27	Acquired Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh Press

1923	Sep 24	Acquired New Mexico State Tribune. New Mexico State Tribune

1926	Mar 12	EWS died on his yacht Ohio in Monrovia Bay, Liberia, Africa and was buried at sea.

1926		Knoxville Sentinel purchased and merged into Knoxville News-Sentinel. Denver News and Times purchased and consolidated with Express into Rocky Mountain News. Memphis News-Scimitar purchased and merged with Press into Memphis Press-Scimitar. Knoxville Sentinel Denver News and Times Denver Express Rocky Mountain News Memphis News-Scimitar Memphis Press Memphis Press-Scimitar

1927	Feb 10	Acquired The New York Telegram. New York Telegram

1931	Feb 27	Acquired The World and merged with The New York Telegram into New York World Telegram. The World New York Telegram New York World Telegram

1933	Feb 18	Tribune and Journal combined business operations to form Albuquerque Publishing Company. Albuquergue Tribune Albuquerque Journal

1935	Aug 24	Scripps established Continental Radio. (Name was changed May 17, 1937 to Scripps Radio, Inc. and December 31, 1961 to Scripps Broadcasting Company.)

1935	Aug 31	Acquired radio station WFBE in Cincinnati and changed call letters to WCPO.

1935	Oct 11	Purchased radio station WNOK, Knoxville.

1938	Mar 02	Robert P. Scripps died aboard his yacht off Baja, Calif.

1938	Dec 31	Evansville Press combined business operations with Evansville Courier. Evansville Press Evansville Courier

1939	Dec 30	Press-Scimitar and Commercial Appeal merged into Memphis Publishing Company. Memphis Press-Scimitar Memphis Commercial Appear

1940	 	Scripps acquires the National Spelling Bee from the Louisville Courier-Journal, which began the event in 1925.

1947	Dec 17	WEWS-TV started in Cleveland.

1948	Dec 11	WMC-TV went on the air in Memphis.

1949	Jul 26	WCPO-TV went on the air in Cincinnati.

1953	Jan 01	Charles E. Scripps became chairman of the board of The E. W. Scripps Company.

1957	Oct 01	Knoxville News-Sentinel and Journal joint operation agreement became effective. Knoxville News-Sentinel Knoxville Journal

1958	May 24	International News Service and picture service facilities joined with United Press to form United Press International.

1960	Jan 23	Cleveland News purchased and merged with Cleveland Press. Cleveland News

1961	Dec 27	WPTV, West Palm Beach, Fla., acquired.

1962	Aug 15	Scripps Howard Foundation incorporated.

1964	Nov 20	Roy W. Howard died.

1965	Apr 12	Acquired Stuart (Fla.) News. Stuart News

1965	Jun 04	Acquired Hollywood (Fla.) Sun-Tattler. Hollywood Sun-Tattler

1966	Apr 24	New York World Telegram and Sun merged with Journal-American and Herald Tribune to become World Journal Tribune. After many difficulties the new paper was suspended May 5, 1967. New York World Telegram and Sun New York Journal-American New York Herald Tribune New York World Journal Tribune

1966	Dec 21	Started Tacoma Times. Tacoma Times

1970	Aug 12	Acquired San Juan Star. San Juan Star

1970	Dec 31	Purchased KTEW television in Tulsa, and changed name to KJRH on July 14, 1980.

1972	Jul 12	Washington Daily News sold to The Washington Star. Washington Daily News

1973	Dec 28	Purchased Fullerton Publishing Company (Daily News Tribune.)	Daily News Tribune

1976	Jun 30	UPI broadcast advisory board formed.

1977	Jan 01	New York executive offices moved to Cincinnati.

1977	May 10	Acquired Grant County News and The Leader of Boone County, both newspapers in Kentucky	Grant County News The Leader of Boone County

1977	Sep 23	Cincinnati Post and Enquirer agreed on joint operating agreement (effective Dec 6, 1979).

1977	Oct 28	Scripps Broadcasting purchased KMBA, Kansas City.

1978	Jun 14	United Media Enterprises, consolidation of Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) and United Feature Syndicate (UFS), became effective.

1978	Jul 01	Started Campbell County (Ky.) News. Campbell County News

1978	Oct 01	Purchased weeklies of Southern California Publishing Company, Pico Press, Inc., and San Gabriel Valley Publications. Southern California Publishing Company Pico Press, Inc. San Gabriel Valley Publications

1978	Nov 01	Purchased web press establishment in Louisville.

1979	Mar 01	Purchased principal weeklies in Louisville, Jeffersonian, The Voice, and Reporter. In March 1980 acquired Southwest Advertiser and changed name to Southwest News.

1979	Sep 16	$10 million UPI Technical Systems Center opened in Dallas.

1979	Nov 01	Purchased Kentucky Standard. Kentucky Standard

1980	Feb 01	Acquired Cordovan Corporation, publishers of books, magazines and business newspapers.

1980	Oct 31	The Cleveland Press, 102 years after founding and a decade of serious financial straits, sold to a Cleveland industrialist.

1981	Apr 28	Scripps's first experiment with electronic distribution took place in Evansville, when news briefs from The Press could be seen in 30,000 homes via cable television.

1981	Sep 09	Scripps Cable Service buys cable systems serving 12,500 subscribers in Lake County, Fla.

1981	April	Scripps purchases two Portland, Ore., radio stations, KUPL-AM/FM

1982	 	United Media reorganzied; "Garfield" copyrights and syndication rights sold to cartoon's creator, Jim Davis, for $32 million.

1982	 	Streamlined corporate structure by acquiring the remaining 14 percent of Scripps Broadcasting, which had been a publicly traded subsidiary.

1982	 	HGTV goes on the air.

1982	 	Cinetel acquired.

1982	February	Purchased Jupiter (Fla.) Courier-Journal, which publishes three times weekly and has paid circulation of 6,000	Jupiter Courier-Journal

1982	October 	The Bremerton Sun adds a Sunday edition

1984	Jan 01	Cordovan Business Journals changes name to Scripps Howard Business Journals; there are 12 journals in the group.

1984	Jan 06	Scripps purchases weekly newspapers in Kentucky - The Pioneer News, circulation 6,000; The Mt. Washington Star, circulation 2,000. The Pioneer News The Mt. Washington Star

1984	Mar 01	The Stuart News becomes a morning publication and adds a Sunday edition.

1984	May 22	Ground is broken for E. W. Scripps Hall at Ohio University.

1985	Nov 01	Company acquires Kartes Video, nation's leading video cassette distribution company.

1985	Dec 31	Columbus Citizen-Journal closed. Columbus Citizen-Journal

1985	April	Company introduces redesigned lighthouse logo and new identity program.

1985	July	Lawrence A. Leser elected president and chief executive officer, succeeding Edward W. Estlow.

1985	March	KNXV-TV in Phoenix acquired.

1985	September	Scripps Broadcasting celebrates 50th anniversary with New York City extravaganza.

1986	April	Intentions to merge John P. Scripps Newspaper Group into Scripps announced.

1986	December	Scripps Business Journals merge with American City Business Journals; Scripps receives $24 million in stock transaction.

1986	December	Medart to purchase Berkley Small.

1986	January	Scripps sells Ann Arbor Cablevision.

1986	March	WXYZ-TV in Detroit and WFTS-TV in Tampa join Scripps Howard Broadcasting.

1986	March	Scripps and Tele-Communications Inc. reach agreement whereby TCI has 50 percent of its partnership redeemed.

1986	May	McCaw Cellular Communications sold.

1986	October	Naples Daily News becomes company's 21st daily newspaper. Naples Daily News

1986	September	Scripps Broadcasting sells interests in Cablevision Systems Corp.

1986	September	Evansville Press sold; Evansville Courier purchased. Evansville Press Evansville Courier

1986	September	Rocky Mountain News Business Journal sold. Rocky Mountain News Business Journal

1987		Scripps sells Canton (Ohio) Free Press; Landmark Community Newspapers and Southern California Publishing Company; also interest in Connecticut cable system; SCW and Youngstown unit of Consumer Communications Services. Canton Free Press Landmark Community Newspapers Southern California Publishing Company

1988	Jun 28	The E. W. Scripps Company makes its initial stock offering.

1989	Fall	The E. W. Scripps Company purchases stock in John P. Scripps Newspaper Group for $39.6 million from estate of John P. Scripps.

1989	March	Hollywood (Fla.) Sun-Tattler sold	Hollywood Sun-Tattler

1990	Mar 07	Class A Common Stock now traded on the New York Stock Exchange under symbol "SSP."

1990	Apr 02	Lawsuit against the company by Gillett Broadcasting settled; provides for company to purchase WMAR-TV in Baltimore for $125 million.

1990	Jun 08	Steps taken to dissolve joint operating agreement with Persis Corporation, publisher of The Knoxville Journal, effective Dec

1990	Dec 31	Persis closes Knoxville Journal in exchange for $40 million in lieu of distributions it would have received from company had joint operations continued through 2005.

1992	June 	Pittsburgh Press sold; The Monterey County (Calif.) Herald acquired	Pittsburgh Press Monterey County Herald

1992	March 	Company announces plans to sell radio stations.

1993	Apr 24	Tulare (Ca.) Advance-Register sold to Gannett Corp.	Tulare Advance-Register

1993	 	Created Home & Garden Television (HGTV), a 24-hour cable network.

1993	 	San Juan Star sold to Santa Rita Acquisitions Inc. (Gerry Anglo)	San Juan Star

1995	February 	Watsonville (Calif.) Register-Pajaronian newspaper sold to New Media Corp.	Watsonville Register-Pajaronian

1996	Jun 01	William R. Burleigh becomes president and chief executive officer; Lawrence A. Leser continues as chairman of the board.

1996	 	Vero Beach Press Journal acquired. Vero Beach Press Journal

1996	 	Company merges Scripps Howard Cable into Comcast Corporation through transaction that delivered $1.59 billion in value, tax-free, directly to Scripps Howard shareholders.

1996	 	New Media unit established in Cincinnati.

1996	December 	Decision made to expand Category Television franchise: Home & Garden Television announces plans for related businesses, including radio and business-to-business networks.

1996	June 	Scripps Ventures launched within United Media

1997	 	Controlling interest of Food Network acquired from A.H. Belo.

1997	August 	Boulder Daily Camera acquired in swap for Monterey County Herald and San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune. Boulder Daily Camera Monterey County Herald San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune

1997	December 	Los Angeles-based Scripps Howard Productions unit sold; nonfiction unit in Knoxville, Cinetel Productions, to be expanded and renamed Scripps Productions.

1997	October 	Corpus Christi Caller-Times, San Angelo Standard Times, Wichita Falls Times Record News, Abilene Reporter-News and the Plano Star Courier, all in Texas, and the Anderson Independent-Mail in South Carolina, acquired from Harte-Hanks Commmunications.

1998	 	DIY--Do It Yourself network debuts on air on the digital tier.

1998	February 	Scripps, Texas newspaper groups create online classified alliance.

1998	January 	Scripps joins consortium to acquire AdOne, an Internet classified network.

1998	May 	President & CEO William R. Burleigh named chairman of the board as Lawrence A. Leser retired.

1998	September 	Second venture fund, Scripps Ventures II, formed.

2000	 	Kenneth W. Lowe named president, chief operating officer and a director of the company.

2000	 	Four Scripps Web sites join Knightridder.com's Real Cities network.

2000	April 	The Ft. Pierce (Fla.) Tribune, acquired in swap for The Destin (Fla.) Log. Ft. Pierce Tribune The Destin Log

2000	January 	Scripps Networks restructured leadership and formed New Ventures group.

2000	June 	Plans for fourth cable network, Fine Living, announced.

2000	March 	Acquisition of independent KMCI, Lawrence, Kan., completed.

2000	May 	Scripps and Media NewsGroup, on behalf of the Denver Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post, submit a Joint Operating Agreement application to the Attorney General to form the Denver Newspaper Agency.

2000	November 	The Gleaner (Henderson, Ky.) acquired. Henderson Gleaner

2000	October 	Marco Island (Fla.) Eagle acquired. Marco Island Eagle

2000	September 	William R. Burleigh retires as CEO; continues as chairman of the board.

2000	September 	Kenneth W. Lowe named CEO of The E. W. Scripps Company.

2001	January 	Attorney General Janet Reno approved the joint operating agreement between Scripps and MediaNews Group in Denver.

2002	Mar 28	Company creates Media Procurement Services, Inc. a subsidiary company, to provide newsprint management and buying services for its own newspapers and other newspaper publishing customers.

2002	Sep 23	The Scripps Howard Foundation and Hampton University in Virginia, in partnership to increase workplace diversity in the nation’s media, open the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications.

2002	Oct 14	After a successful video-on-demand trial in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, Scripps Networks and Time Warner Cable expand their video-on-demand agreement to offer Scripps Networks on-demand programming in more than 30 Time Warner Cable markets across the country.

2002	Oct 31	Company acquires controlling interest of the Shop at Home television retailing network

2002	March 	FINE LIVING launched.

2003	Oct 23	Kenneth W. Lowe, president and chief executive officer, celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse and pop culture icon, Snoopy of “Peanuts” fame, preside over the opening bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange in observation of the company’s 125th anniversary

2003	Dec 03	Company establishes the Scripps Academy for Hispanic Journalists, a training and education program designed to help early-career Hispanic journalists develop the skills they need to succeed in daily newspaper careers.

2004	Apr 01	Company’s Washington, D.C. bureau will be known as the Scripps Media Center to recognize its new role producing magazines, special sections and other innovative products in addition to reporting the news.

2004	Apr 14	Company acquires Summit America Television Inc., which includes Summit’s 30 percent minority interest in the Shop at Home television retailing network and Summit’s five Shop at Home-affiliated broadcast television stations.

2004	Nov 17	Company acquires the Great American Country (GAC) cable and satellite television network, a 24-hour country music video network distributed nationwide to about 34 million Nielsen rated households, from Jones Media Networks, Ltd.

2005	Jan 12	Scripps Networks, a pioneer in the delivery of shelter-related information, launches HGTVPro.com, the first video-rich, professional-grade information online network for the building industry.

2005	Jun 27	Company acquires Shopzilla, a leading online comparison shopping service and the online BizRate consumer feedback network.

2005	Sep 23	The Birmingham Post-Herald ceases publication due to unfavorable publishing economics. Birmingham Post-Herald

2005	Sep 30	Company acquires the Colorado Daily in Boulder	Colorado Daily

2006	Jun 21	Jewelry Television buys the cable network assets of Shop At Home television.

2006	Sep 26	Scripps sells the five broadcast television stations affiliated with Shop At Home for $170 million.

2007	Dec 31	The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post publish their final editions as the JOA with The Cincinnati Enquirer expires.

2008	Jul 01	The company’s national and global businesses are spun off in a tax-free transaction. For every share they own, Scripps shareholders receive one share of stock in the new company, Scripps Networks Interactive. The assets that remain with The E. W. Scripps Company include 10 television stations in nine markets, daily newspapers in 15 markets, and the licensing and syndication businesses of United Media.

2010	Apr 27	Announced the sale of United Media's licensing operations to Iconix Brand Group