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Linn County Newspapers

1875: there were only two newspapers

1912: there were ELEVEN newspapers

 

(Updated: Friday, August 05, 2011)

 

Brookfield Gazette

Brookfield Daily News  (website link no longer valid.)

Brookfield Weekly Argus

·        September 28, 1882 – Vol. 1  No. 1  NEW

Bucklin Herald

·        Bucklin Herald  - Excerpts: Fri. 25 Nov. 1989 & Fri. 09 June 1899

·        Bucklin Herald – Obituaries    Updated

Laclede Blade

·        Laclede Blade Feb. 1904

Linn County Budget

·        Budget July 17, 1917  NEW  

Linn County News

·        Bush Creek Wreck – 1881  NEW

Linneus Bulletin

Marceline Press

The Press of Linn County

·        The Press of Linn County: History of

 

 

 Linn County Newspaper Listing of: Paper name; Political persuasion; and, OLD Publishers.

 

Other Article Links

 

Newspaper Abstracts~Linn County  (listed in date order of occurrence)

·        The Macon Telegraph and Messenger - May 8 1877:  Negro Lynched for "Voudou"

·        Grand Forks Daily Herald - May 12 1894:  Missouri Tragedy. An Entire Family Except One Little Girls Murdered in Cold Blood.

·        The Bulletin - May 1899:  Lieutenant H.J. WEST has returned to Marceline...

·        Linn Republic - 1900 Christmas of Old

·        Kansas City Star - May 1, 1904: Think It is George TAYLOR. Tacoma Officers Believe They Have the Fugitive Missouri Murderer.

·        The Brookfield Gazette - September 3, 1910:  F.M. Beers a former well known resident and prominent farmer..

·        Linn County Budget - November 25 1913:  M.A. Cooley sustained a severe scalp wound Monday by being struck...

·        The Bulletin - May 1919:  Miss Gladys Bradley went to Kirksville...

 

 

Future Articles

High Character of Publications

H. J. Wigginton on "Journalism"

Sketch of Linn County's First Publisher

A Pioneer Editor and Printer

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Linn County Coordinator

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