From the The Capital Times:
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The history of The Capital Times begins, of course, with William T. Evjue, who launched the newspaper in 1917 as a voice of the Progressive movement, but his is not the only prominent name in our history. Forty years later, Evjue brought Elliott Maraniss to town.