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Local Newspapers for the Jim Thorpe Tomb ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of the Jim Thorpe Tomb.

Our newspaper information for the Jim Thorpe Tomb 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 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> of the Jim Thorpe Tomb. 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 Jim Thorpe Tomb.

  • Published In Lehighton
    • Lehighton Evening Leader (from Lehighton Evening Leader)
    • The Carbon Advocate (from The Carbon Advocate)
    • The Evening Leader (from The Evening Leader)
    • The Lehighton Press (from The Lehighton Press)
    • The Lehighton Press (from The Lehighton Press)
    • The News-Record (from The News-Record)
    • The Press (from The Press)
      • Years of publication:  The Press to 1900
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Press
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87078547
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17064384
    • The Weekly News (from The Weekly News)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Lehighton.
  • Published In Summit Hill
  • Published In Weatherly
  • Published In Lansford
    • Lehighton Evening Leader (from Midweeker)
    • The Carbon Advocate (from The Gazette)
    • The Evening Leader (from The Good News Gazette)
    • The Lehighton Press (from The Lansford Leader)
    • The Lehighton Press (from The Valley Gazette)
    • The News-Record (from The Weekly Gazette)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Lansford.

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions 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 Jim Thorpe Tomb. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8848, Longitude: -75.7257       In this case, the coordinates for the Jim Thorpe Tomb have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).