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!
Local items from Laporte county and surrounding towns
Potatoes for sale at 14 cents per pound from James Frood. Birth announced for Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hobb a daughter. News includes illnesses injuries sales and auctions, county bridge repairs, and travels of residents. Reports of floods, deaths Walter Johnson and Isaac Hoover, fires at Valparaiso elevator, and upcoming events at Valparaiso College and the Coburg sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carman
James Frood
Walter Hobb
Fravel Scott
Olga Barnard
F. W. Martin
Michigan City
Philip Brown
T. H. Forbes
Coburg
John Lonn & Son Co
Laporte
Ind
Walter Johnson
Anna Johnson
Wilders
Kankakee
Weather Bureau
Panhandle
English Lake
Laporte Herald
Isaac Hoover
Center Township
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Porter County
Laporte County
Masonic Order
Grand Rapids
Lake Michigan
Grand Haven
Chicago
Valparaiso
Chicago & Grand Trunk Western Railway
Way, Highly & Co
Obie Way
Union Mills