Newspaper Extracts
The two newspapers active today are listed below, along with the mailing addresses:
Clinton Daily & Weekly Journal
1463 State Rte 54 W.
Clinton, IL 61727-2195
Phone: (217) 935-3171
Fax: (217) 935-6086
De Witt County Constitution
104 S. Monroe Street
Clinton, IL 61727-2058
INDEX OF TRANSCRIPTIONS
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Featured Article
Friday, December 1, 1899
Clinton Register
Clinton, Illinois
JIMTOWN.
Mr. HECTOR's health is quite indisposed since he came from the tall corn stalk. He was so excited that he ate too much corn for his digestive organs. But he is still a great experimenter and inventor. He has been very attentive to some pumpkin vines this summer. He is trying to produce what he calls a "dynamite pumpkin." He mixes saltpeter and some other preparation unknown to us, in the water which he irrigates them with. He thinks the pumpkin will become so impregnated with the stuff that they will explode like bombs. He raised a few of the combustibles this year; he says by throwing them on the ground they would pop like pistols. He thinks by saving the seed and using the preparation next year they will be strong enough to blow up a large stump and intends to make a fortune raising torpedo pumpkins. His cow got in and ate most of them but he has seed saved. He keeps the cow in the far part of the farm for fear of her exploding. He is very much grieved about the cow eating them as he thought they had enough snap that he could charge them with another preparation and cause an explosion. If they are a success he is going to throw pumpkins at Tanner and blow him up. Tanner, look out for torpedo pumpkins in 1900. They are just awful.
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Note: The Clinton Public was also known as The Central Transcript, The Weekly Central Transcript, and The Clinton Public and Central Transcript. The name changed frequently in the early days of the paper, but it eventually ended up as The Clinton Public so, for simplicity's sake, it is often just referred to as The Clinton Public.
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OTHER NEWS
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A View of Clinton
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Special thanks to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, through whom we can share some of these pages from the past with you. We are also especially grateful to C. H. Moore, who saved all his newspapers, bound them every year, and left them to the city. If it were not for him, we would never have had all the newspapers on microfilm.