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Local Newspapers for the Friendship Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Friendship 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 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of the Friendship 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 Friendship Cemetery.

  • Published In Standish
  • Published In North Windham
    • The Alethian (from The Advertiser)
    • The Advertiser (from The Courier Free Press)
    • The Courier Free Press (from The Courier)
    • The Courier (from The Lakes Region Advertiser)
      • Years of publication:  The Lakes Region Advertiser to 197?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Courier
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN97069075
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 38245318
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in North Windham.
  • Published In Limington   [York County, ME]
  • Published In Gorham
    • The Alethian (from Gorham Times)
    • The Advertiser (from The Eastern Boys' Companion)
      • The first year of publication was in The Eastern Boys' Companion, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Advertiser
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN94051256
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 30853879
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Gorham.
  • Published In Westbrook
    • The Alethian (from L'Observateur = The Observer)
      • Years of publication:  L'Observateur = The Observer to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Alethian
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN97062744
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 37609012
    • The Advertiser (from Suburban Shopper)
    • The Courier Free Press (from Success)
    • The Courier (from The Chronicle-Gazette)
      • Years of publication:  The Chronicle-Gazette to 190?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Courier
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN84026904
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 10737840
    • The Lakes Region Advertiser (from The Westbrook Chronicle And Globe-Star)
    • Maine Recorder (from The Westbrook News)
    • Gorham Times (from The Westbrook Star)
      • Years of publication:  The Westbrook Star to 1894
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Gorham Times
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95067902
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 33158444
    • The Eastern Boys' Companion (from The Westbrook Telephone)
    • L'Observateur = The Observer (from The Westbrook Witness)
    • Suburban Shopper (from Westbrook Advertiser)
    • Success (from Westbrook American)
      • Years of publication:  Westbrook American to 1968
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Success
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95067898
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 33158281
    • The Chronicle-Gazette (from Westbrook Chronicle)
    • The Westbrook Chronicle And Globe-Star (from Westbrook Chronicle)
    • The Westbrook News (from Westbrook Gazette)
    • The Westbrook Star (from Westbrook Globe-Star)
    • The Westbrook Telephone (from Westbrook Globe)
    • The Westbrook Witness (from Westbrook Shopper)
    • Westbrook Advertiser (from Westbrook Times)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Westbrook.

The official website for Cumberland County: www.cumberlandcounty.org/

The official website for State of Maine: https://www.maine.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions 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 Friendship Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.7955, Longitude: -70.5674       In this case, the coordinates for the Friendship Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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