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This download contains abstracts from The Rock Island Register and The Rock Island Argus 1860-1862, Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois; 253 pages.
RICIGS member Janet Pease found The Rock Island Register and The Rock Island Argus to be the only two newspapers being published in Rock Island County, Illinois for the period of 1860-1862 that are still in existence.
From The Rock Island Argus May 11, 1860
Barber and family of Hampton with a party of 20 persons passed through here last Wednesday on their way to Pikes’ Peak. He has rented his farm and closed his lumber mill at Rapids City.
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