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Below are 13 newspapers that have been published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<1> of Sprague. The list has been sorted by paper name.

  Beckley Post Herald & Raleigh Register  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1953 to 1984

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13196460

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for the Beckley Post Herald & Raleigh Register

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092271

  Daily News-Digest  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1952 to 195?

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13196290

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Catalog Card for the Daily News-Digest

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092262

  Register/Herald  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1984 to current

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 10221134

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Catalog Card for the Register/Herald

Holdings for: LCCN SN83005424

  The Beckley Messenger  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1912 to 1918

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13196315

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Catalog Card for The Beckley Messenger

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092265

 
  The Evening Post  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Published in 1924

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13196361

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Catalog Card for The Evening Post

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092269

 
  The Gulf Times  

Published in Sophia [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1977 to 1982

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13201277

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Catalog Card for The Gulf Times

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092273

 
  The Independent Observer  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1934 to 194?

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13196294

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Catalog Card for The Independent Observer

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092263

 
  The Messenger  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1909 to 1912

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13196310

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The Messenger

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092264

 
  The Raleigh County Gulf Times  

Published in Sophia [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1982 to 1986

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 10339488

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The Raleigh County Gulf Times

Holdings for: LCCN SN84008005

 
  The Raleigh Herald  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1900 to 1924

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13196350

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Catalog Card for The Raleigh Herald

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092268

 
  The Sophia Weekly Review  

Published in Sophia [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Published in 1941

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13196473

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The Sophia Weekly Review

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092274

 
  The Sunday Register  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Years of publication: 1923 to 1953

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13201883

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for The Sunday Register

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092300

  West Va. Leader  

Published in Beckley [Raleigh County]    [Map]  

Published in 1918

Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13196468

Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:

Catalog Card for the West Va. Leader

Holdings for: LCCN SN86092272

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Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance starting from Sprague. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sprague) to Point B.

Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sprague. The point that we are using is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7932, Longitude: -81.1840     [Map].   In this case, the coordinates for Sprague have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

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