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The Herald Statesman – Yonkers, NY

© Frank H. Jump

CLICK FOR FRONT PAGE OCT 31, 1938 – Old Fulton History

© Frank H. Jump

Yonkers Herald
January 2, 1891 – March 14, 1932

Yonkers Herald Statesman
March 15, 1932 – October 11, 1998

available on microfilm @ Yonkers Public Library

The Yonkers Gazette – Getty Square UPDATED

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

According to the Library of Congress [loc.gov] The Yonkers Gazette ran from 1866 – 1923 [J.G.P. Holden, Publisher].

J.G.P. Holden – History of Westchester – J. Thomas Scharf A. M., LL.D. 1886 – L.E. Preston & Co, Publisher

Prior to that it was just the Gazette from 1864 – 1866 [Yonkers Democratic Pub. Assn.], preceded by The Herald from 1852 – 1866 [Thomas C. Cornell, Publisher].

Thomas C. Cornell – History of Westchester – J. Thomas Scharf A. M., LL.D. 1886 – – L.E. Preston & Co, Publisher

Le Mieux Informe – Le Petit Journal – Six Pages – Limeuil, Dordogne FR – Gaia Son

© Gaia Son

© Gaia Son

© Gaia Son

Konstantin Stoitzner (1863–1934): “Le petit journal”

© Gaia Son

Charles Terront pictured on the front page of the 20 September 1891 edition of Le Petit Journal after his Paris-Brest et retour victory. n 1891, Le Petit Journal created the Paris–Brest–Paris road cycling race. Its editor Pierre Giffard promoted it as Paris-Brest et retour in his editorials which he signed “Jean-sans-Terre”. It is now established as the oldest long-distance cycling road event. – Wikipedia

Better Informed, The Little Newspaper – Six Pages

Chapelle de St Martin, just North of the village of Limeuil, Dordogne – Gaia Son

Le Petit Journal was established in 1863 [and ceased publication in 1944].  In the 1890s, at the height of its popularity, the newspaper had a circulation of a million copies, and by 1884 it also included a weekly illustrated supplement…It was founded by Moïse Polydore Millaud. In its columns were published several serial novels of Émile Gaboriau and of Ponson du Terrail. – Wikipedia

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