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HARRISON GOES IN: Local partisan papers battle during 1888 election

During that 1888 election, there were little more than 4,500 people living in Warren. But it had three newspapers. And this was an era where newspapers were blatantly partisan. So the Warren Mail was a Republican mouthpiece and the Warren Ledger was at least informally the paper for the ...

Veterans reflect decades \ later at reunion on commander killed at Antietam

Hugh Watson McNeil was killed in Sept. 1862 at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. When the surviving members of the Bucktails met in Warren in 1918, McNeil, their colonel, remained a prominent figure in the minds of the men, nearly 60 years since he was killed. The regiment’s history, ...

Regiment reunion: Warren hosts 1918 Bucktails reunion

Descendants of the Bucktails, the famed Civil War regiment that had a company recruited from Warren known as the “Raftsmen Guards,” will meet for a reunion this weekend in Kane. This is the 31st edition of this version of Bucktails reunions. But the men themselves gathered throughout ...

Timing unique but Biden not first president to step aside

President Joe Biden wasn’t the first president to not seek another term when he was eligible to do so. He’s actually one on a relatively lengthy list — James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and LBJ — to be eligible for another term in the ...

Making music

The Warren Concert Association is winding down its operations. This version has been in existence but references in local newspapers date back to at least 1939. “It was learned early this afternoon from Warren Concert Association officials that the artist committee has definitely ...