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Local Newspapers for the Bowker Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Bowker 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 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of the Bowker 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 Bowker Cemetery.

  • Published In North Scituate
  • Published In Cohasset   [Norfolk County, MA]
  • Published In Hingham
    • Scituate Light (from Hingham Gazette)
    • Scituate Mirror (from Hingham Journal & Mariner)
      • Years of publication:  Hingham Journal & Mariner to 1995
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Scituate Mirror
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN97068885
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 38537442
    • The Cohasset Cottager (from Hingham Journal South Shore Advertiser)
    • Abington Standard (from Hingham Journal)
    • Rockland Independent (from Hingham Patriot)
    • Rockland Standard Rockland Independent (from The Hingham Journal)
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  • Published In Rockland
    • Scituate Light (from Abington Standard)
    • Scituate Mirror (from Rockland Independent)
    • The Cohasset Cottager (from Rockland Standard Rockland Independent)
    • Abington Standard (from The Rockland Standard And Plymouth County Advertiser)
      • Years of publication:  The Rockland Standard And Plymouth County Advertiser to 1934
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Abington Standard
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN83020027
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 9232757
    • Rockland Independent (from The Rockland Standard)
    • Rockland Standard Rockland Independent (from The Standard)
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  • Published In Scituate
    • Scituate Light (from Scituate Herald South Shore News)
      • Years of publication:  Scituate Herald South Shore News to 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Scituate Light
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89062511
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 22645510
    • Scituate Mirror (from South Shore Herald)
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  • Published In Pembroke
  • Published In Weymouth   [Norfolk County, MA]
    • Scituate Light (from The Weymouth Weekly Gazette)
      • Years of publication:  The Weymouth Weekly Gazette to 1870
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Scituate Light
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN83020940
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 9654867
    • Scituate Mirror (from Weymouth Enterprise)
    • The Cohasset Cottager (from Weymouth Gazette And Transcript)
    • Abington Standard (from Weymouth Gazette The Citizen Braintree Reporter)
      • Years of publication:  Weymouth Gazette The Citizen Braintree Reporter to 1890
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Abington Standard
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89063454
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23005829
    • Rockland Independent (from Weymouth Gazette The Citizen East Weymouth News Braintree Reporter)
      • Years of publication:  Weymouth Gazette The Citizen East Weymouth News Braintree Reporter to 1892
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Rockland Independent
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89063455
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23005930
    • Rockland Standard Rockland Independent (from Weymouth Gazette The Citizen East Weymouth News)
    • The Rockland Standard And Plymouth County Advertiser (from Weymouth Gazette, And Braintree Reporter)
    • The Rockland Standard (from Weymouth Gazette)
    • The Standard (from Weymouth News And Gazette)
      • Years of publication:  Weymouth News And Gazette to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Standard
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89063459
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23006213
    • Scituate Herald South Shore News (from Weymouth Weekly Gazette And Braintree Reporter)
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  • Published In Abington
    • Scituate Light (from Abington Journal)
    • Scituate Mirror (from Plymouth County Journal)
      • Years of publication:  Plymouth County Journal to 1885
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Scituate Mirror
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN83020029
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 9235189
    • The Cohasset Cottager (from The Abington Standard And Plymouth County Advertiser)
      • Years of publication:  The Abington Standard And Plymouth County Advertiser to 1874
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Cohasset Cottager
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN83020026
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 9232709
    • Abington Standard (from The Weekly News)
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Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Bowker Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.1720, Longitude: -70.8245       In this case, the coordinates for the Bowker Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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