Serving as daily (or weekly) diaries of local communities and their inhabitants, newspapers are excellent sources of family history. They provide a wonderful, resource for genealogists, providing accounts of events not recorded elsewhere.
Newspapers not only provide the expected birth announcements and obituaries, but also announcements of anniversaries, legal notices, letters to the editor, and social columns filled with local news of a more personal
nature.
Adams county has had several newspapers throughout the years. Some of these are available on microfilm at the State Historical Society.
Listed below are known newspapers published at one time in Adams county.
Adams county gazette 1867 - 1904? weekly
title varies: Gazette
published in Quincy, 1867 - 1869
published in Corning, 1869 - 1904
Adams County Free Press Feb. 2, 1833 - Current. weekly
Adams County Union 1874 - 1898. weekly
merged with Republican to become Adams County Union-Republican
continues: True Union
Adams County Union - Republican 1898 - 1929. weekly
formed by merger of Republican and Adams County Union
absorbed by: Adams county free press
The colored advance August 1, 1882 - ? semi-monthly
ethnic black
Courant 1877 - 1879? weekly
minor political party
Greenback
The Nodaway Valley News 1901 - 1913. weekly
continued by: Valley Press
Valley Press 1913 - 1915? weekly
continues: Nodaway Valley News
Adams County Argus1899? - 1905? Weekly
continues: Prescott Advocate
continued by: Prescott Argus
Prescott advocate 1889? - 1899?
continued by: Adams county argus
Prescott Argus 1906? - 1921. Weekly
continues: Adams county Argus
Chronicle 1883 - 1886? weekly
Adams county telegraph 1871 - 1872? weekly
Western Iowa Journal 1870 - 1871? unknown
title varies: Quincy Journal
continues: Queen City Leader