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From: "Lee Hollenbeck" <>
Subject: [ILFORD-L] Fw: Herscher Newspaper
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 23:46:06 -0500

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From: "Linda L. Willibey" <>
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Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 12:22 PM
Subject: Herscher Newspaper


>
> There is reference in the Kankakee Newspapers of the later 1800's to a
> Herscher Newspaper. In fact, there is reference to other small towns in
> the western part of Kankakee County having their own weekly
> newspapers. These were weekly editions. I have not located any of these
> old newspapers. I assume they were probably only a couple of pages and no
> one saved them.
>
> I did find a microfilm of a couple of years of The Herscher Pilot dating
> around the years of 1918 to 1920, thereabouts. I don't remember the exact
> year dates. It was a weekly paper dated on Thursdays of each week. I
> last saw this microfilm in a back drawer in a filing cabinet near the
> Kankakee Newspaper microfilms out at KCC. It is not listed on the file
> cabinet's notation of what is in the drawer. I happened on it about two
> years ago and used it. I don't know if it is still there.
>
>

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