Mahoning Dispatch Museum offers tour

Staff report

CANFIELD

The Canfield Historical Society will present “The Mahoning Dispatch Through the Decades” on July 18 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Bond House, 44 W. Main St.

The interactive program will allow guests to peruse original Mahoning Dispatch newspapers from the 1920s through 1950s. Younger visitors can spend time at the “journalism for kids” table.

When guests are finished at the Bond House (which is across from the Canfield Library), they can stroll over to the Mahoning Dispatch Museum, 21 S. Broad St., on The Green, for a tour of the former newspaper building. The tours, which will show how newspapers were printed in times past, will begin at 12:30 p.m. and run every hour though 3:30 p.m.

The entire program is free, but donations will be accepted by the nonprofit Canfield Historical Society.

The Mahoning Dispatch was established in 1877 as the area’s weekly newspaper and was in operation for 91 years. It was owned by three generations of the Fowler family.

The interior of the building has remained virtually untouched, as have the four historic machines still on site, which include a Linotype, a Heidelberg Windmill, a Platen Press and the newspaper’s oldest press, a Campbell Flat Bed.