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Book Title: History Of Coles County

THE COUNTY PRESS.

   The first newspaper was established in Coles County in 1840, and was called
the Charleston Courier. But as the township history will contain a more complete
account of the press, we shall have little to say on the subject in this
chapter. We wish, however, to leave on record our impression of the value of the
files of county papers as sources of history. Their pages give a picture from
week to week of both national and local events, which can be found nowhere else.
Even the advertisements give much history, and we think there ought to be a
provision made for keeping such files in the county and city offices.

   There are at present in Coles County six newspapers, viz.: the Courier and
Plaindealer, of Charleston; the Commercial, Journal and Gazette, of Mattoon; and
the Herald, of Oakland. These are live, energetic newspapers, well filled with
the news of the day (this is not an advertisement), and deserve the liberal
support of the people of the county.


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THE HISTORY OF COLES COUNTY. ILLINOIS,

CONTAINING

A History of the County—its Cities, Towns, &c; a Directory of its Tax-Payers;
Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map
of Coles County; History of Illinois, Illustrated; History of the Northwest,
Illustrated; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c, &c.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO:
WM. LE BARON, JR., & CO., 186 DEARBORN STREET.
1879.

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