...he end of 1870, James Madison Usher of West Medford began the publication of a four-paged weekly. It was a great eight-column blanket sheet, twenty-one by twenty-eight inches in size, bearing title Medford Journal in big ornamental letters, the two words a little separated by a wood-cut of a wood-burner locomotive and ancient railway cars. It bore date of December 24, 1870. We have never found that this ...