the table rock argus

Read more about the 2015 renovation of the newspaper museum (which includes a link to an April 2015 article in the Lincoln Journal Star about the renovation).  The the April 2015 article in the Prescott (Arizona) Daily Courier by a columnist who read an 1897 edition of the Argus.  Read more about locations, staff, and editors of the Argus. Look at photographs of the presses and equipment. And read a wonderful essay or two about how precious a country weekly newspaper was.  Here are the links:

2015 Renovation

2015 article by Lincoln Journal Star about presses

2015 article by Prescott Daily Courier about 1897 edition

Photos of Locations & Staff

Editors

Photos of presses and equipment

The Platen Presses, more info
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Wonderful essays About the Precious Hometown Weekly

Atchison Daily Globe, June 5, 1882 refers to the launch of the Table Rock Argus.

The Argus on PDFs of Microfilm

All the known surviving issues of the Argus are in PDF.  These issues came from the Nebraska State Historical Society, who had most of these on microfilm, and from the Argus office.  It is a long tedious job uploading these, so it will take a while to get them all up.  A flash drive with all of the editions can be purchased for $20 plus postage, contact us through our Facebook group page.