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Local Newspapers for the Saint John Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the St. John 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 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of the St. John 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 St. John Cemetery.

  • Published In Bellwood
  • Published In Tyrone
  • Published In Alexandria   [Huntingdon County, PA]
    • The Bellwood Bulletin (from Home News)
    • The Tyrone Times (from Our Church News)
    • Tyrone Daily Herald (from The Mountain Messenger)
      • The first year of publication was in The Mountain Messenger, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Tyrone Daily Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87080263
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15734471
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Alexandria.
  • Published In Altoona
    • The Bellwood Bulletin (from Altoona American)
    • The Tyrone Times (from Altoona Daily Sun)
    • Tyrone Daily Herald (from Altoona Evening Call)
    • Tyrone Democrat (from Altoona Evening Gazette)
    • Tyrone Herald (from Altoona Gazette)
    • Home News (from Altoona Gazette)
      • Years of publication:  Altoona Gazette to 1914
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Home News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87078153
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15306556
    • Our Church News (from Altoona Graphic)
    • The Mountain Messenger (from Altoona Mirror)
    • Altoona American (from Altoona Sunday Morning)
    • Altoona Daily Sun (from Altoona Times Tribune)
    • Altoona Evening Call (from Altoona Times)
    • Altoona Evening Gazette (from Altoona Tribune And Altoona Times)
    • Altoona Gazette (from Altoona Tribune)
    • Altoona Gazette (from Altoona Tribune)
    • Altoona Graphic (from Altoona Vindicator)
    • Altoona Mirror (from Blair County Labor News)
      • Years of publication:  Blair County Labor News to 1920
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Altoona Mirror
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87080071
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 12609567
    • Altoona Sunday Morning (from Deutscher Volksfuhrer)
    • Altoona Times Tribune (from Evening Mirror)
    • Altoona Times (from Gospel Trumpet)
    • Altoona Tribune And Altoona Times (from Labor News)
    • Altoona Tribune (from Morning Tribune)
    • Altoona Tribune (from Sunday Gazette)
    • Altoona Vindicator (from Sunday Graphic News)
      • The first year of publication was in Sunday Graphic News, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Altoona Vindicator
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87078145
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15292813
    • Blair County Labor News (from Sunday Morning)
    • Deutscher Volksfuhrer (from The Altoona Collegian)
    • Evening Mirror (from The Altoona Sunday Call)
      • Years of publication:  The Altoona Sunday Call to 188?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Evening Mirror
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87078185
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15341539
    • Gospel Trumpet (from The Altoona Sun)
    • Labor News (from The Altoona Sun)
      • Years of publication:  The Altoona Sun to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Labor News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87080047
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15324400
    • Morning Tribune (from The Altoona Tribune)
    • Sunday Gazette (from The Globe)
    • Sunday Graphic News (from The New Guide)
    • Sunday Morning (from The Times)
      • The first year of publication was in The Times, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Sunday Morning
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87080068
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 12618021
    • The Altoona Collegian (from The Toiler's)
    • The Altoona Sunday Call (from Times Tribune)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Altoona.
  • Published In Williamsburg
    • The Bellwood Bulletin (from Temperance Vindicator)
    • The Tyrone Times (from The Williamsburg Record)
    • Tyrone Daily Herald (from The Williamsburg Semi-Weekly Record)
    • Tyrone Democrat (from Williamsburg Journal)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Williamsburg.

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 from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the St. John Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5948, Longitude: -78.2495       In this case, the coordinates for the St. John Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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