sentences:  Prentice soon found himself in an editorial feud with "Advertiser" publisher Shadrack Penn, which continued until Penn left the city in 1841.Prentice's biting editorials and the savage wit of his replies to detractors helped make the "Journal" the most widely circulated newspaper in western America in the next four decades.Prentice was also a poet, whose best-known poem, "The Closing Year" (written on New Year's Eve 1836) would be included in one of McGuffey's Readers.