

County News for September 1879
September 5th, 1879 W L Gray sold his interest in the Bridgeport store of Buchanan & Co to J M Buchanan . Warner Bros rented the upper...

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Nov 19, 20244 min read
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Infanticide in Lawrence County in the 1800's
The definition of infanticide is the killing of any infant below the age of one. There is no infanticide statute in Illinois. Thus,...

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Nov 18, 20243 min read
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Law and Order 1875
May 15, 1875 A young man named Kaiser was returning from Vincennes to his home on May 16, 1875 at 10 o'clock pm. when he met two...

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Nov 14, 20245 min read
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August 1879
A review of the news around the county in August 1879 Rural Republican Friday August 1, 1879Â Â Watermelons were ripe and selling for a...

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Nov 13, 20248 min read
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Onward to Oregon
Mary Goen was born about 1793. She married John Laws . Mary and John had a daughter, Nancy Laws, born Dec 31 1823 in Lawrence County...

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Oct 25, 20242 min read
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Sumner Postmarks
On temporary exhibit now is Zane Parrott’s collection of Havoline items. If you have been in the History Center you have seen Libby...

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Oct 18, 20241 min read
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To Wear or Not to Wear
The Robinson Argus Thu, Jun 20, 1878 · Page 2 In an indirect way the Supreme court of Pennsylvania has been called upon to decide the...

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Oct 11, 20242 min read
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Watch Where You Sit
We have only spotty digitized county newspapers for the summer of 1879, so the researchers had to look for local news in the Vincennes...

Lawrence Lore
Oct 10, 20244 min read
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Shoot’em with an Ax
We do not have digitized county newspapers for March 1879-August 1879, so the researchers had to look for local news in the Vincennes and...

Lawrence Lore
Sep 25, 20244 min read
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They’s all the feet I’ve got!
We do not have digitized county newspapers for March 1879-August 1879 so the researchers had to look for local news in the Vincennes and...

Lawrence Lore
Sep 19, 20246 min read
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