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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Forbes Road.

Our newspaper information for Forbes Road is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

We don't know of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Forbes Road. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Forbes Road. Our list contains 75 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Forbes Road.

To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Forbes Road.  

Newspapers Neighboring Forbes Road ...

The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km] of Forbes Road.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Forbes Road.

  • Published In Greensburg  ...
    • We know of 45 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Greensburg. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Greensburg
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Forbes Road. This extended list includes all the papers from Greensburg. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Forbes Road
  • Published In Jeannette  ...
  • Published In New Alexandria  ...
  • Published In Latrobe  ...
    • Evening Clipper (from 18??)
    • Latrobe Advance (from 1873)
    • Latrobe Bulletin (from 1902)
    • Latrobe Clipper (from 189?)
    • Latrobe Daily Advance (from 1904)
    • Latrobe Weekly Advance
    • Latrobe Weekly Clipper (from 1896)
    • The Reveille (from 1882)
      • The first year of publication was in 1882, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Reveille
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86083230
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 14251832
  • Published In Youngwood  ...
  • Published In Irwin  ...
  • Published In Murrysville  ...

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- Forbes Road) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Forbes Road. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3540, Longitude: -79.5217       In this case, the coordinates for Forbes Road have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).