The Winona Newspaper Project

There's now a searchable archive for three old newspapers of Winona, Minnesota. The newspapers, available at http://www.winona.edu/library/databases/winonanewspaperproject.htm , include the Winona Argus, the Winona Daily Republican and the Winona Republican Herald. The newspapers span 125,000 pages but it's hard to tell from the overview page if the archive is actually complete.

The papers may be browsed or searched. The software for reviewing the archive prefers Internet Explorer but seems to work fine with Firefox. I searched all publications for the word mining and got over 3900 results. Results include date, number of words in the article, and the location of the article in the paper.

Click on the headline and the article itself will pop up in a new window. Despite warnings about the paper quality, I found all the articles I looked at very easy to read.

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