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1838-1840. See Western Mirror and Ladies’ Political Gazette. Var.: Western Weekly Mirror
1827-1828. It appears that the first newspaper ever published in St. Clair County was called the Western News. This was published by Dr. Joseph Green...
1837– Based in Upper Alton, the paper was published by Ashford Smith & Company and edited by J.M. Peck
1836-1839. In 1836, the operation of the Pioneer was moved from Rock Spring in St. Clair County to Alton, and the first number of the...
1830-1831. Judge John York Sawyer had established the Western Ploughboy in Edwardsville November 1, 1830, and continued the publication one year, when he came into...
1849. A weekly summary of commerce, navigation, science and the arts. L. Pickering & Company, publisher. Printing plant destroyed in great fire.
1852. T.F. Risk & Thomas E. Garrett, editors/publishers. It was a monthly, devoted to general literature, the science of government, social and political progress, the...
1881-1882. B.W. Alexander was proprietor, Captain C.W. Bellairs, editor, and Gwynne Price, field editor. In the fall of 1882 it was discontinued…Western Sporting Life was...
1878-1881. Miss Flora Hawthorne, editor.
1825?. The Western Sun, established at Belleville (according to one report in December, 1825, and according to another, in the winter of 1827-28) by Dr....
