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Rock Island Argus.
Chronicling America: Historic American newspapers Available from 12/02/1893 until 03/24/1920. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Standardized Title:
- Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, Ill. : 1893 : Online)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock Island (Ill.)--Newspapers.
- Rock Island (Ill.).
- Illinois--Rock Island.
- Genre:
- Newspapers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Daily (except Sunday and holidays), Dec. 1907-Mar. 24, 1920
- Began with vol. XLII, no. 40 (December 2, 1893); ceased March 24, 1920.
- Edition:
- Last edition 4:30 o'clock / Mar. 14, 1903-Oct. 25, 1904.
- Other Title:
- Argus
- Continues:
- Rock Island daily Argus (Rock Island, Ill. : 1886 : Online)
- Continued By:
- Rock Island daily union (Rock Island, Ill. : 1908 : Online)
- Rock Island Argus and daily union
- Place of Publication:
- Rock Island, Ill. : J. W. Potter, 1893-
- Rock Island, Ill. : J. W. Potter Co.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Feb. 21, 1896 issue includes "Extra Evening ed."
- July 2, 1898 issue includes "Extra Noon issue."
- July 4, 1898 issue includes "Extra War issue."
- Nov. 26, 1895 issue called also "Thanksgiving Number"; "Issued by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association."
- Oct. 25, 1896 issue is an extra issue published on Sunday.
- Sept. 4, 1899 issue called also "Labor Day Edition."
- Dec. 17, 1899 issue called also "Special ed."
- Apr. 3, 1907 and Apr. 8, 1908 issues include "Extra Election" edition.
- Dec. 14, 1907 issue called also "Merchants' Annual. Shoppers' Edition."
- Oct. 16, 1908 issue includes "Midnight edition. Fire extra" edition.
- Nov. 2, 1908 issue includes "First Edition Political Situation" edition.
- Nov. 27, 1912 issue called also Sixtieth Anniversary Achievement Edition."
- Oct. 22, 1914 issue "prepared by students of the high school."
- Description based on: Vol. XLII, no. 40 (December 2, 1893); title from masthead (Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, viewed November 13, 2013).
- Latest issue consulted: Sixty-third year, no. 15 (November 4, 1913) (Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, viewed November 13, 2013).
- Irregular number of pages published per issue.
- Various incorrect chronological, vol., and no. designation.
- Issue for Fifty-seventh year, no. 264 (Aug. 21, 1908) erroneously designated as "Weekly Edition."
- Issue for Sixtieth year, no. 22 (Nov. 11, 1910) erroneously designated as "Weekly Edition."
- Issue for Sixtieth year, no. 220 (June 30, 1911) erroneously designated as "Weekly Edition."
- Numbering dropped for issue Oct. 4, 1906. Numbering continues with Oct. 5, 1906 issue.
- Some issues include supplements.
- Weekly ed.: Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, Ill. : Weekly), <1899-1908>
- Merged with: Rock Island daily union (Rock Island, Ill. : 1908), to form: Rock Island Argus and daily union.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rock Island Argus (1893)
- ISSN:
- 2332-0699
- OCLC:
- 862928997
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