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Kansas Newspaper Records

 

Atchison Daily Globe, Atchison, Kansas

 

Great Bend Daily Tribune, Great Bend, Kansas

Western Kansas Press, Great Bend, Kansas

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Newspaper Database at Rootsweb includes:

Lyon Co: Admire Advance Index, April 1893, Admire, KS

Lyon Co: Admire Advocate Index, April-July 1932, Admire, Kansas 

Lyon Co: Admire Independent, 1891-1892, Admire, KS 

Lyon Co: Admire Northern Star Index 1912-1917, Admire, Kansas

Lyon Co: Allen Weekly Herald, 1894-1897, Allen, KS 

Lyon Co: Americus Greeting, 1890-1906 Americus, Kansas 

Lyon Co: Americus Ledger, 1885-1889, Americus, KS  

Lyon Co: Emporia Daily Tidings, 1894, Emporia, Kansas  

Lyon Co: Emporia Democrat Newspaper, 1882-1889, Emporia, Kansas 

Lyon Co: Emporia Globe Newspaper Index 1886-1887, Emporia, Kansas 

Lyon Co: Emporia Journal 1880-1881, Emporia, Kansas 

Lyon Co: Emporia Ledger 1874-1882, Emporia, Kansas  

Lyon Co: Index of The Americus Sentinel, 1900-1901, Americus, Kansas  

Lyon Co: Index of the Bushong Bulletin, August 1899, Bushong, KS  

Sedgwick Co: Newspaper Indexes  

Bourbon County KSGenWeb site transcribed abstracts of several Bourbon County newspapers. (After the website opens, scroll about halfway down the page).

Coffey County, KS Newspaper Extracts various newspapers, at the Coffey Co. KSGenweb site

Obituaries

Atchison and Leavenworth, Kansas Obituaries, 1998

Kansas City Kansan Obituaries, 1998

Leavenworth County, Kansas Obituaries 1936-1941, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951-53, 1954, 1955-56, 1957, 1958, 1959-64, 1965-66, 1967-78, 1979-82, 1994-1998,1999

Coffey County Obituary Index at the KSGenWeb site

Riley County, Kansas Area Newspapers Obituaries 1994-95, 1998-99

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