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The St. Louis Observer was an abolitionist newspaper established by Elijah Lovejoy, a New England Congregationalist minister, in St. Louis, Missouri.After the newspaper's printing press was destroyed for a third time by a pro-slavery mob, the newspaper was re-located to Alton, Illinois, and renamed the Alton Observer.
Climate data for Alton, Missouri (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1962–2014) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high °F (°C) 76
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the Belleville News-Democrat, Alton Telegraph, and Edwardsville Intelligencer. The publication has received 19 Pulitzer Prizes. [3]
Oregon County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri.As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,635. [1] Its county seat is Alton. [2] The county was officially organized on February 14, 1845, and was named for the Oregon Territory in the northwestern United States.
Houses along Main Street in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., are submerged up to the top of the first floor in floodwaters from the Mississippi River in this July 21, 1993 photo, during the Great Flood of 1993.
The Alton Observer (1837) was an abolitionist newspaper established in Alton, Illinois, by the journalist and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy after he was forced to flee St. Louis, Missouri. Lovejoy left St. Louis, where he edited the St. Louis Observer, after his printing press was destroyed for the third time.
Daily Commercial Bulletin and Missouri Literary Register (1836–1838) [8] Daily Commercial Bulletin (1838–1841) [ 9 ] Die Gasconade Zeitung ( Hermann ) (1873-187?) [ 10 ]
Anderson worked as a typesetter for the Missouri Republican and for Elijah Parish Lovejoy's anti-slavery newspaper, the Alton Observer. He founded the Antioch Baptist Church in Brooklyn, Illinois and then returned to St. Louis where he was a co-founder and the second pastor of the Central Baptist Church. He served the church until his death in ...