Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Ouachita Newspapers

  • Ouachita Parish Newspapers Searchable for Free!

    In the past, I have told you about the Chronicling America site, which has newspapers digitized from the 1800s. The Louisiana Digital Library, in cooperation with LSU, is now digitizing…

  • A List of Monroe’s African-American Newspapers

    I was browsing through the Genealogy Department’s collection, when I found a book called “Bibliographic Checklist of African American Newspapers” by Barbara K. Henritze. It was published in 1995. It…

  • The Daily Electric Letter

    What you are looking at is page three of a four page newspaper called the Daily Electric Letter, published at Monroe November 13, 1877. This is the local news section.…

  • The Monroe New Moon Newspaper Editor

    I found this in an Arkansas paper (Weekly Arkansas Gazette, May 1, 1839, Page 2) which shows the uproar over a newspaper editor in Monroe. This guy isn’t the first…

  • The Monroe News-Star/ Monroe Morning World Receipt

    My Mom received from a sister, a box of her father’s papers from the late 1960’s. He lived in a small town in Central Louisiana. While going through them, I…

  • Miscellaneous Microfilm at the Ouachita Parish Public Library

    If you paid close attention to yesterday’s newspaper post, I posted the index of our newspaper microfilm cabinets. I purposely left out the most interesting cabinet, cabinet A. That is…

  • Newspapers at the Ouachita Parish Public Library

    Many Monroe and other area newspapers are being digitized and put online. However, not all of them are there yet! Many months ago, I compiled a drawer by drawer list…

  • Monroe’s First Newspaper

    This was printed in the News-Star on October 31, 1933.  It shows the front page of an 1823 Monroe newspaper called the Louisianian.  It is Monroe’s first newspaper and is…

  • The Daily Electric Letter

    I wish I could see what this particular newspaper looked like!  It would have been fascinating!  Unfortunately, no copies exist. Ouachita Telegraph, September 28, 1877, Page 3 The Daily Electric…

  • Known Ouachita Parish Newspapers

    I decided to make a list of all known newspapers that were published in Ouachita Parish.  It is by NO means a comprehensive list.  Some have no surviving issues, some…