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On Oct. 29,1885,the first issue of the forerunner to the Medicine Hat News,the Times,was run off a tiny hand press. It’s not conclusive,but there are a number of people who are pretty sure that a boxcar embedded in a building at 525 North Railway St. is the site of the first building. Thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of two Ontarions,teacher Thomas Braden and printer Andrew Armour,Medicine Hat was home to a newspaper,a community booster,a voice for southeastern Alberta and a publication that residents of the area still turn to 125 years later to find out what’s happening in their backyard,their province,country and around the world.