Discusses consolidation of Rustic and Leader .

At the age of twelve years he [James T. Bradshaw] entered the Laclede County Leader office, and served an apprenticeship. . . . In 1876 he went to Richland, where he had charge of the Pulaski County Sentinel during the campaign, but returned to Lebanon in 1878, where he established the Lebanon Leader , which publication he controlled until 1880, when he consolidated with the Lebanon Rustic , and continued the publication as the Rustic Leader, on account of them both being Democrats. . . . in 1844 he returned to Lebanon to again take charge of the Rustic. In October, 1884, on the death of the editor, Dr. John W. Armstrong, he purchased the paper, and has since continued its publication..

(History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri. Indexed Edition. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 (Rpt. 1974). Indexed Edition. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 [Rpt. 1974], p. 696)