New Site for Newspaper Archive

The link to the digital archives of the newspapers from Odebolt and Sac County as changed! They have also updated coverage to 2020!

Here is the new link
https://saccounty.advantage-preservation.com

 

For Odebolt history buffs

As you may already know, Odebolt newspapers from 1877 to 2004, and other historic area publications are now on-line thanks to Odebolt's library and museum.  (Read the news article.)

The main entry is located at  http://saccounty.advantage-preservation.com  .. run searches, and sit back to have some fun reading about the past.

And, just to let you know ... there is a LOT of history contained in particular issues.

The August 25, 1938 edition of The Odebolt Chronicle, put out an extensive history supplement titled
"Fifty Years of Progress; Celebrating the Chronicles 50th Anniversary and the Iowa Territorial Centennial."   This issue begins at Page 13 (Click the arrow on the upper right - then click the drop down in the box with the page numbers to go to the next page)


The November 17, 1927 edition of the Odebolt News put out a supplement titled "Fiftieth Anniversary and Booster Edition, 1877-1927."  Click for the beginning page

 
Run searches in the year 1977 to find Odebolt Centennial articles. 
The Centennial issue starts here
There are follow-up centennial articles in 6/30/1977 edition

Check out the June 13, 2002 Chronicle for Quasquicentennial news


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In addition, The Odebolt History Pages is full of history both transcribed and submitted by others. There are also many many historic photos.  The index to the 450+ pages of the Odebolt History Pages is located here  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iaohms/townhistory.html

THANK YOU to all the people who have made it possible to view Odebolt history on the Internet!