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Imagine more than a century ago when there were no telephones, no motorcars and no electric lights or power; when the streets were illuminated by gas lamps and the mode of transportation was horse-drawn carriages. Such were the conditions when a fledgling printer and Civil War veteran, Horace N. Hastings, and three of his four sons gave notice at the top of an editorial column on Saturday, December 8, 1877 that they officially had formed Hastings & Sons Publishing Company, a co-partnership to publish a daily newspaper of the caliber to understand the requirements of the people and to help in the.