Jersey County Newspaper Excerpts

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Jersey County Newspaper Excerpts

Typed excerpts from newspapers. Lots of names and history. Births, deaths, marriages, accidents and more. There will be typos.

Joseph M. Page, Editor and Proprietor of the Jersey County Democrat

Backwoodsman, 1840

Alton Newspapers 1845-1868(Jerseyville items)

Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Three Jerseyville items 1851, 1855, 1870.

Prairie State 1850-1854

Jersey County Democrat:

Democrat 1865-69	Democrat 1870-75	Democrat 1876-77
Democrat 1880	Democrat 1881	Democrat 1882	Democrat 1883
Democrat 1884-86	Democrat 1887	Democrat 1888	Democrat 1889
Democrat 1893	Democrat 1894	Democrat 1895-1946

Jerseyville Republican, 1868-1923

Examiner 1870-1879          Examiner 1880-1899

Clippings, 1871 – 1934, most no source

Undated Clippings, no source

Republican 1919, Letters to Santa

Medora Messenger 1916

Circa 1950s

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