Sullivan Newspapers

Newspaper access notes:

These newspaper scans are LARGE FILES!  They range from 10MB to 60MB in size.  The time to open or download these documents will depend on the speed of  your Internet connection.  If you click on the file links, the documents will open in your browser (assuming your browser has a pdf reader plugin).  One can "right click" on the files to download to their PCs.

The following newspaper scans are in Adobe pdf format.   These documents have all scanned with Optical Character Recognition so that text can be searched within each of the documnents.  Open the documents in an Adobe file reader and then search for text strings as needed.

Thanks to Bob Best and the News Progress for making available copies of the Sullivan Progress from 1916 and 1919 through 1948 so that they could be digitized and placed on this web site. These issues of the Progress make up the bulk of what is now available here in digital form.

Thanks also to the Moultrie County Historical and Genealogical Society for making available microfilm versions of various other early Sullivan newspapers, including the Sullivan Express for the years 1857 through 1860, and to Paul Stone for facilitating the arrangements for digitizing these microfilm files.

Sullivan Newspapers

The Sullivan Express - Fragments

1857     1858     1859     1860    

 

Moultrie County News

1886 1895 1896 1898 1903 1905 1915 1916
1921 1922 1924 1925 1927 1929 1930 1932
1933 1934 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948

 

The Sullivan Democrat

1899 1902 1906 1911

 

Sullivan Herald

1923 1924 1925 1926

 

Saturday Herald

1899 1902 1903 1904 1907 1908 1909 1910
1911 1912 1915

 

Sullivan Progress

1888 1905 1916 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922
1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930
1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
1947 1948