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  • The Advertiser (Collinsville, Ill.)
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    Description
    The Advertiser was a local newspaper published in Collinsville, Illinois, every Saturday. This weekly publication served residents in the immediate Collinsville area, just east of St. Louis and the Missouri-Illinois border. The Advertiser features advertisements, local announcements, news, short stories, advice columns and reports from various advisory boards and public services. During elections, the Advertiser was particularly active in providing information on political candidates. This newspaper would be a good resource for researchers of rural life in Illinois and genealogists. LCCN: sn91054139 OCLC: 24314168
  • Albion journal (Albion, Ill.)
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  • The Aledo press (Aledo, Ill.)
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  • American eagle (Washington, D.C.)
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  • American Popular Entertainment Collection
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    Description
    The American Popular Entertainment collection contains digital facsimiles of historic newspapers and trade journals published for the entertainment industry in the US between 1853 and 1929. These works include trade perspectives, features, and travel information on vaudeville, music performance, burlesque, and other popular forms of entertainment of the period. Digitization of this collection made possible through the generous support of Library Friend Robert O. Endres.
  • The Arsenal record (Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill.)
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  • The Ashton gazette (Ashton, Lee County, Ill.)
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    Description
    The University Library's digital collection of Ashton Gazette newspapers reflects a Republican-affiliated periodical serving the northern region of rural Illinois. Articles, advertisements, and editorials reflect the regional character of Ashton, Illinois, a rich agricultural district in Lee county. Special features of the newspaper includes Ashton’s village treasurer’s report and annual chronologies. Every week, subscribers could expect to find information on state and national news, local gossip, short stories, and advice columns. This collection provides a record of the enduring rural culture of northern Illinois in during the early twentieth century. Family historians may find the local announcements useful for documenting births, weddings, and deaths in the area. The paper is still published today under the same name.
  • Banker Farmer (Champaign, Ill.)
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    Description
    OCLC: 20752291
  • Berkshire world and cornbelt stockman (Springfield, Ill.)
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    Description
    OCLC: 19357438
  • Better farming (Chicago, Ill.)
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    Description
    OCLC: 310431965
  • Blue Mound leader (Blue Mound, Macon Co., Ill.)
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  • The Bowen chronicle (Bowen, Hancock County, Ill.)
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    Description
    The Bowen Chronicle was a weekly newspaper serving the western-most regions of central Illinois. Published in Bowen, Illinois, a town known for agriculture, poultry, and live stock raising, the Bowen Chronicle was distributed throughout Hancock county. Subscribers could expect to find information on news, market reports, local gossip, short stories, and advice columns. Coverage during this time period was especially interested in the expansion into the American West and expeditions to Africa and South America. Family historians may find the local announcements useful for documenting births, deaths, weddings, and other social affairs in the area.
  • The broad ax (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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    Description
    The Broad Ax began as a weekly publication founded, published and edited by former Virginia slave Julius F. Taylor. The newspaper began in Salt Lake City in 1895 but disputes with the Latter-Day Saints led Taylor to move his publication to Chicago in 1899, where he continued his focus on being "Democratic in politics, advocating the immortal principles of Jefferson and Jackson" and his motto to "hew to the line." Taylor's focus was on racial equality, religious tolerance and support for Free Silver/William Jennings Bryan. It was described by historian Juliet E. K. Walker as "the most controversial black newspaper in Chicago in the late nineteenth century." In 1912, Taylor helped create the Colored Press Association of Chicago, whose purpose was to strengthen the mission of the black press in Chicago by establishing a local news gathering bureau, to highlight issues of particular interest to African Americans, and, more specifically, to endorse an African American candidate for county commissioner. The Broad Ax was published by Taylor until his health declined in 1931 and he could no longer continue.
  • Bureau County tribune (Princeton, Ill.)
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  • The Cairo bulletin (Cairo, Ill.) -1928
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    Description
    The Cairo Evening Bulletin, The Cairo Daily Bulletin, The Cairo Bulletin and The Daily Cairo Bulletin Between its founding in 1837 by the Cairo City and Canal Company and its incorporation in 1858, the town was visited by Charles Dickens, who was decidedly unimpressed with its marshy surroundings, calling it a “detestable morass” (American Notes, October 19, 1842). The Cairo Evening Bulletin was formed by John H. Oberly and Company in 1868. Though the company was “not ignorant of the fact that the history of the printing business in Cairo furnishes . . . no encouragement,” Oberly, a Democrat, was prompted to launch the Bulletin when the Cairo Daily Democrat “passed into the hands of the members of the Republican party,” thus opening the door in Cairo for “a new organ of Democratic sentiment.” Although the Cairo Daily Democrat ceased publication in November 1868, Oberly and his partners followed through with their plans, and the first issue of the Cairo Evening Bulletin appeared on December 21, 1868. The “ignominious death” of the Cairo Daily Democrat meant, however, that the Evening Bulletin could be more inclusive in its reporting. As the primary newspaper in Southern Illinois, the Bulletin covered news, politics, and literature for the entire region. Although Oberly continued to advocate democratic principles, he also recognized and respected “the right of private opinion.” In 1868, he wrote that the newspaper’s mission was to “upbuild Cairo and all the fertile and wide-spread country which surrounds it in three of the great States of the Union . . . “ The paper went through several name changes in the years that followed, including the Cairo Daily Bulletin (1870-72), the Cairo Bulletin (1872-78), and the Daily Cairo Bulletin (1878-1???). Oberly left in early 1876 and was succeeded by Thomas Nally on May 2, 1878. That same month, yellow fever began to spread its way up the Mississippi. On August 1, the steamboat John D. Porter arrived at Cairo, where it discharged crewmen carrying the disease. By late August, newspapers were reporting yellow fever cases and deaths in New Orleans, Memphis, and other cities. In the August 22 edition of the Daily Cairo Bulletin, Nally wrote: No case of yellow fever ever originated in Cairo and although during thirty-five years and over many cases have been put off here the disease never assumed the form of contagion. The older citizens have absolute faith in our peculiar atmospheric conditions, believing they are unfavorable to the spread of fever -- malarial or otherwise. Although a contrary impression prevails, there is no city on the continent of its size where there is less sickness from fever. … We also stand ready to prove that there are few healthier localities anywhere than the spot selected by Dickens to slander the people of a whole country. When a number of persons were diagnosed with the disease in the nearby town of Hickman, Nally was at pains to put minds to rest: “Cairo has still little to fear. Her sanitary condition is excellent. … Our atmosphere is pure, cool and light, and the conditions for generating organic poisons are wanting. Upon this rock of common sense we build our faith and our hope of escape from the scourge.” In contrast, Walter McKee, who took over the Cairo Evening Sun when the previous publisher hastily fled the city, cautioned that “we don't want to alarm our people, but we think it right they should know the truth, as we are determined that none shall be lulled into security, when we think there is danger.” On September 8, 1878, a few days after hiring a printer who had departed Memphis in the wake of the fever (and who was still recovering from the disease), Nally himself became ill. He died four days later. Eventually, about one-third of the population evacuated the city. The October 8 edition of the Sun reported that “the yellow fever has finally taken a hold upon Cairo there is no longer any doubt. The evidence of the fact is so strong that it would be foolhardy to attempt a denial.” The Bulletin lost three other printers to the disease, and publication was suspended from September 12 until November 1. All told, there were 80 cases of yellow fever in Cairo in 1878, 62 of them fatalities. The newspaper is still in publication and is currently titled the Cairo Citizen. OCLC: 27970518 LCCN: sn93055779
  • The Champaign Daily News (Champaign, Ill.) 1895-1919
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  • Chicago Eagle (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??
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    Description
    The Chicago Eagle was a primarily weekly newspaper published by Henry F. Donovan (and subsequently his son John M. Donovan) from 1889 to the mid-1940's. Donovan professed his title to be independent but it is seen to be a Democratic party publication devoted to municipal politics. Typical content included Donovan's fight against graft and corruption in local and state government, with a particular emphasis on working conditions in department stores, the meat packing industry, the burgeoning telecommunications monopoly, election fraud, the bribery of public officials and public safety issues. The layout of issues typically presented two main stories above the fold, separated by a portrait of a public figure (who may or may not have been involved in the lead stories).
  • Chicago examiner (Chicago, Ill.)
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  • The Chicago Live Stock World (Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill.) 1900-1917
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  • Chicago packer (Chicago, Ill.)
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  • Chillicothe independent (Chillicothe, Ill.)
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  • Chuck Olin Digital Film Archive
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    Description
    The Chuck Olin Digital Film Archive consists of production elements from two PBS-broadcast documentaries: "In Our Own Hands: The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II," and "Is Jerusalem Burning? Myth, Memory and the Battle of Latrun." Both films, relying primarily on first-person accounts, tell the story of critical episodes in the formation of the nation-state of Israel. The unedited versions of the first-person accounts contained in the collection offer the student or scholar a unique set of primary-source material. Collection size: 8 interviews. BibID: 5791425
  • Collegiate Chronicle Collection
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    Description
    The Collegiate Chronicle presents U.S. college newspapers from different regions and time periods. Included are The Eagle from American University and the Hoya from Georgetown University, both in Washington D.C., newspapers from colleges in Pennsylvania such as the F&M College Reporter from Lancaster, the Lincolnian from Oxford, and the Weekly Gettysburgian from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Also featured are the Ithacan from Ithaca College in New York, and the University's own Daily Illini.
  • Collyer's eye (Chicago)
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  • The Daily Illini (Urbana, Ill.)
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  • The Daily National Hotel Reporter (Chicago, Ill.) 1872-1932
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  • The daily pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.)
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  • The day book (Chicago, Ill.)
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    Description
    The Day Book was conceived by newspaper mogul Edward Willis Scripps as an experiment in advertisement-free newspaper publishing. This Chicago publication was published for a "working-class readership" Mondays through Saturdays from September 28th, 1911 to July 6th, 1917. Scripps envisioned that this digest-sized publication would report on issues of concern for the vast majority of the populace. The Day Book championed the interests of workers, with extensive coverage of working conditions, wages, union organizing, and labor unrest. Of note is that Carl Sandburg was a reporter for the paper from 1913 to 1917. Although the publication was profitable for only one month of its run, scholars recognize its achievements in adopting both a new business model for newspaper publishing and a new style of advocacy journalism.
  • The Deer Creek Progress (Deer Creek, Ill.) 18??-19??
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  • The DeKalb daily chronicle (De Kalb, Ill.)
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  • The De Pue leader (De Pue, Bureau County, Ill.)
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  • Draugas (Chicago, Ill.)
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  • Dundee weekly (Dundee, Ill.)
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  • Dziennik Chicagoski (Chicago, Ill.)
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  • Dziennik narodowy (Chicago, Ill.)
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    Description
    Nearly forgotten today, Dziennik Narodowy ("National Daily News") was considered one of the most important newspapers of the Polish community in Chicago. Established on December 4, 1898, by members of the Polish Nationalist Party, Dziennik Narodowy remained crucial to the political education of Polish Americans until its demise in September 1923. After one year with the paper, Dziennik Narodowy's first editor, John J. Chrzanowski, resigned in favor of Michal Sadowski, who remained editor until April 1900. From October 11, 1899 to December 1899 during Sadowski's administration,the printing of Dziennik Narodowy ceased. In later years, F.H. Jablonski, Frank Wolowski, K. Barski, Filip Ksycki, and M.S. Dunin served as editors. Under the editorship of Frank Wolowski, Dziennik Narodowy printed a special page of Glos Polek (The Voice of Polish Women), the official organ for the Polish Women's Alliance of America. As editor of both Dziennik Narodowy and Glos Polek, Wolowski helped sustain Glos Polek, of which his wife Lucja Wolowska was an officer, during a period of financial stress. From 1903 to 1910, Dziennik Narodowy featured a special edition of Glos Polek. Since 1910, Glos Polek has continued as a weekly and, since 1994, a monthly publication, maintaining its goal to sustain the voices of the Polish-American women. Largely devoted to cultural and literary matters, Dziennik Narodowy became a semi-official organ of the Polish-American relief organization, the National Department (Wydzial Narodowy), which was active during World War I. Dziennik Narodowy's main rival, was the Chicago newspaper Dziennik Zwiazkowy (Alliance Daily News). Established in 1908, it too was associated with the National Department. Because of its affiliation with the Polish Nationalist Party, Dziennik Narodowy adopted a more secular position, contesting the influence of the Catholic Church within the Polish community in the Midwest. Its adversarial stance set Dziennik Narodowy apart from other immigrant newspapers. On June 9, 1897, before Dziennik Narodowy began publication, another Polish-language newspaper, Dziennik Chicagoski (Polish Daily News) warned that "Dziennik Narodowy ['s]...sole purpose will be to 'kill the parochial daily' ...and check the influence of the Polish Catholic press in America." Despite their political differences, Dziennik Narodowy was eventually absorbed by its rival.Today, Dziennik Zwiazkowy has become the longest running and only remaining Polish newspaper published in Chicago.
  • The evening gazette (Monmouth, Ill.)
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  • The express (Tallula, Ill.)
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  • The farmers' gazette (Sterling, Ill.)
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  • Farmers' Review (Chicago, Ill.)
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    Description
    OCLC: 1357660 LCCN: sn93055808
  • Farmers voice (Chicago, Ill.)
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    Description
    OCLC: 10121622 LCCN: sn93024087