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Local Newspapers for the Farrar Cemetery ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of the Farrar Cemetery.

Our newspaper information for the Farrar Cemetery is based on data supplied by the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

Hint: When we started searching newspapers, we only looked for obituaries. Eventually we realized that our search was too narrow and there was much that we were missing. Now we include things like around-the-town and gossip columns, birth and death announcements.

We have some family members who owned businesses and now we search for articles and advertistments for those businesses. Some family members could have been better behaved and a search of police blotters contained some surprises.

The following newspapers were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of the Farrar Cemetery. These papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in the order of their distance from the Farrar Cemetery.

  • Published In Collins   [Story County, IA]
    • Collins Clipper (from Collins Clipper)
    • The Collins Clipper (from The Collins Clipper)
    • The Collins Gazette (from The Collins Gazette)
    • The Collins, Iowa, Gazette (from The Collins, Iowa, Gazette)
    • The Liberator (from The Liberator)
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  • Published In Mitchellville
  • Published In Baxter   [Jasper County, IA]
  • Published In Colfax   [Jasper County, IA]
  • Published In Altoona
  • Published In Ankeny
    • Collins Clipper (from Ankeny Press Citizen/crier)
      • Years of publication:  Ankeny Press Citizen/crier to 1986
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Collins Clipper
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87057167
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15744358
    • The Collins Clipper (from Ankeny Press Citizen)
    • The Collins Gazette (from Ankeny Press-Citizen)
    • The Collins, Iowa, Gazette (from Ankeny Today)
    • The Liberator (from The Ankeny Times)
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  • Published In Colo   [Story County, IA]

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Farrar Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8061, Longitude: -93.3691       In this case, the coordinates for the Farrar Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).