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Historical Newspaper Holdings
Newspapers can provide obituaries of an ancestor's death or news articles of events for a specific place and time in history. The following historical newspapers (ones that are on file in either print or microfilm format older than 3 months) are available on Tier 4 of St. Louis County Library Headquarters unless otherwise noted. For the location of a specific newspaper, see the list of drawer and cabinet locations for Tier 4 holdings.
CALIFORNIA 
   Los Angeles, Los Angeles County  
        Los Angeles Times: 1 Jan 1982 to date
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
      Washington Post: Jan 1986 to date
MASSACHUSETTS
   Suffolk County
        Boston Transcript (Genealogical Queries Only)
        6 June 1896 – 30 April 1941
                 (Note: Microfiche for this resource are on Tier V, in Drawer F.)
MISSOURI 
Jackson, Cape Girardeau County 
 - Independent Patriot: 23 Dec 1820 – 13 Dec 1826 
Maryville, Nodaway County
 - Maryville Republican: 1870 – 1882

 

Note: The Maryville Republican microfilms are indexed by Abstracted Newspaper Index of Nodaway County, Missouri, 1869-1900, R977.8124/O23A, which is available in Special Collections.
St. Louis City & County
 

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14th St. White Way News  — see North St. Louis Community News
 - Amerika  (German): 3 Jan 1903 – 30 June 1914
  - Amerika Sunday Edition: (German Catholic) 3 Sept 1876 – 13 Oct 1878 
  - Amerika Weekday Edition: (German Catholic) 23 Oct 1872 – 31 Dec 1902 
- Anzeiger des Westens (German): 18 Oct 1842 – 7 June 1898 
  - Baden News — see North St. Louis Community News
  - Baden News Press, 16 June 1948 – 29 Dec 1964 
  - Carondelet News: 31 Jan 1903 – 20 Dec 1935  (City of St. Louis and St. Louis Co., Mo.)  Index 
  - Carondelet Progress, 26 Nov 1898 – 29 Apr 1899 
- Daily MO Democrat: 5 Apr 1853 – 30 Dec 1853
- Free Press (Jewish)6 Mar 1885 – 25 Nov 1887 (Lacks 27 Feb 1885 & 22 Jan 1886)
  - Herald des Glaubens, (German Catholic) 16 Oct 1889 – 27 Sept 1899 
- Jewish Light: 1947 – 1977
  - Jewish Tribune: 
   29 Aug 1879 – 17 June 1881 (incomplete)
  6 Oct 1882 – 18 April 1884 (Lacks 14 Mar 1884)
- Jewish Voice:  6 Jan 1888 – 31 Dec 1920
  - La Lega Italiana, (Italian) 9 Oct 1914 – 25 Dec 1920 
  - La Revue De L'Ouest: (French) 1854   Index  284k PDF
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Le Patriote: (French) 1878, 1884, and 1886-1887  Index 235k PDF

  - Maplewood Champion / Maplewood News Champion, 12 Dec 1912 – 22 Dec 1935 
- Missouri Democrat (Daily):  5 Apr 1853 – 30 Dec 1853
- Missouri Republican News:  25 Mar 1828 – 30 June 1838 
- Naborhood Link News: 1930-1969  (Lemay, St. Louis County)
  - North St. Louis Community News — includes 14th St. White Way News, Baden News, and West Florissant News 1931 – 1933 
  - St. Louis Argus (African American):

          

1 Jan 1915 – Dec 1942; Jan 1945 – Dec 1962; 1965 – 1966; 1986 – 1997 
  - St. Louis Bugle, 1945 - 1972 (Lemay and Carondelet area) 
  - St. Louis Christian Advocate: (Methodist) 1851-1882 
      Note: The following two books in Special Collections reference some of the obituaries in this newspaper:
Missouri Obituaries: Abstracts of Obituaries Published Weekly in the "St. Louis Christian Advocate"
― (R977.8 W893M)
State-wide Missouri Obituaries: From "The St. Louis Christian Advocate" (Methodist) 1851-1882 (R977.8 W893S)
- St. Louis Countian:  8 Sept 1951 – 28 Sept 1985
  - St. Louis Countian: (Kirkwood) 24 Jan 1919 – 27 Dec 1952 
- St. Louis Daily Record: 16 Oct 1890 – 28 June 1985
- St. Louis Globe-Democrat: 1853 – 1986 (Index to deaths in the Daily Missouri Democrat for 1860, 255k PDF New
  -- St. Louis Newspapers, Part 2 — Microfilm roll includes scattered and single issues of various titles. Inquire at the Special Collections Department Reference Desk on Tier 5 for more information.
- St. Louis Palladium (African American): 10 Jan 1903 – 5 Oct 1907 
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 1874 to date
  - St. Louis Republican, 4 Jan 1850 – 26 Dec 1851 and Jan – June 1854
- St. Louis Star-Times: 1910 – 1950 
- Watchman Advocate: 1881 – 1985 (title varies) Index (in progress)
  - Webster Groves News / Webster Groves News-Times, 7 Jan 1916 – 22 Dec 1960
  - West Florissant News — see North St. Louis Community News
- Westliche Post (German):  Sept 1857 – June 1938 – Obituary Index 
NEW YORK 
   New York, New York County 
       New York Times: Sept 1851 to date
 

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