Iowa City Press-Citizen Archive (2024)

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Google News Archive is an extension of Google News. It provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to the 18th century. There is a timeline view available to help you select news from a specific period.

History. The Press-Citizen was formed in 1920 from the merger of two newspapers: the Democratic Iowa State Press, founded in 1860, and the Republican Iowa City Citizen, founded in 1891. Merritt Spiedel bought the Press-Citizen in 1921; Spiedel's company merged with the Gannett Company in 1977.

Examples of included titles: Iowa City Daily Press, Iowa City Republican, and Iowa City Press Citizen.

The Press-Citizen returned to downtown Iowa City at 123 N. Linn St. in March 2011. The Press-Citizen became part of Gannett Co.

The first inhabitants of what is now the state of Iowa were Paleo-Indians, the earliest ancestors of Native Americans. They probably occupied ice-free land during the time when the Des Moines lobe was covered by glaciers, about 14,000 years ago.

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What is Iowa City Iowa known for? ›

Iowa City is the home of the University of Iowa. It was the second capital of the Iowa Territory and the first capital city of the State of Iowa; the Old Capitol building is a National Historic Landmark in the center of the University of Iowa campus.

The first newspaper in Iowa was the Du Buque Visitor, established in 1836 before Iowa was a state. The current Dubuque paper, the Telegraph Herald, can trace its history back to the Visitor.

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The Citizen is a daily newspaper distributed nationally in South Africa. While its core readership is mainly in Gauteng, it also distributes to surrounding provinces such as Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the North West.

City Press is a national Sunday newspaper that carries news from South Africa and the rest of the world and has separate sports, business and careers sections. Award-winning journalists and social commentators contribute to its opinion and analysis section Voices.

Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 300+ million pages of historical newspapers from 11,100+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond, with a special focus on full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles in addition to small local newspapers.

In 2011, Google announced that it would no longer add content to the archive project. On August 14, 2011, without notice, Google made the News Archives home page unavailable. Apparently, the service merged with Google News.

Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety. Any newspapers in Chronicling America that were published less than 95 years ago are also believed to be in the public domain, but may contain some copyrighted third party materials.