While the Union was first issued in Rock Island, November 5, 1862, the origin of the paper is to be…
After the Banner began its support of the Democratic party, the Whigs felt the need of a paper during the…
T. J. Pickett launched a Republican paper -the Rock Island Register-February 9, 1859, and published from the start a weekly…
The first issue of the Port Byron Globe appeared October 16, 1880, J. W. Simpson being editor and proprietor. It…
Jesse A. Winger was the founder of the Press. He bought the entire plant, new from shooting-stick to newspaper press,…
On the 10th of March, 1855, James Bowie issued a daily paper in Rock Island called The News. It was…
On the 30th of August, 1875, the first number of a handsome semi-weekly, entitled Neue Volks Zeitung, was issued from…
In 1845, the Whigs were again without a paper, and in November of that year, a prospectus was issued, for…
Although the youngest of the newspapers of Moline, the Moline Evening Mail has, from the first, enjoyed the confidence and…
From June of 1867, when Captain L. M. Haverstick bought the Moline Republican and discontinued it, to November 26, 1870,…