This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Far and Near from Our Exchange Table
Edwardsville hosts nineteen saloons and may reach twenty as a note on local life. Highland Fair stock subscriptions total 152 with 48 remaining to be sold. Mayor Cowen of Girard bans schools and public gatherings due to diphtheria. Tax comparisons favor Highland versus Trenton Collinsville and Greenville. A Sparta clerk vents soot with gunpowder. no injuries. A Belleville man tries prank with a footpad but gets clocked by three. A local board supports punitive ruler use, shipping in more rulers if needed. A man near St Mary’s church dies by morphine note, but doctors deem it a prank. County supervisor Brammell plans rock-purchase to employ paupers breaking stone for roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowen
Girard
Highland
Trenton
Collinsville
Greenville
Sparta Dry Goods
Belleville
Sle
Fritz Wehking
St. Mary’s Church
Edwardsville
Boxer