Newspapers on Microfilm, Pope County Library
Pope County Library
116 East Third Street
Russellville, Arkansas 72801
1. Van Buren, Arkansas, Intelligencer - March 11, 1843-September 4,
1847
2. Fort Smith Herald - 1847-1856 (incomplete)
3. The (Russellville) Weekly Tribune - October 28, 1871 (just this one
issue)
4. Russellville Weekly Tribune - August 12 1948-December 30, 1954
5. The (Russellville) Advertiser - April 25, 1949-March 8, 1951
6. Three rolls of miscellaneous issues of different newspapers:
Roll 1
Russellville Courier 1897-1898
Newton Herald 1900
The Bentonville Sun 1892
The Dover Courier circa 1900
The Morrilton Democrat 1899
The Mountain Wave 1900
Roll 2
The Dover Times 1928
Russellville Democrat 1885-1890
Russellville Express 1894
Russellville Siftings 1895
Dover Sunday Journal 1891
Pope County Record 1901-1903
Roll 3
The Dover Courier March 1897-June 1894 (published for W. A. Baird)
The Dover Times 1926-1928
Russellville Express February 16, 1895
Russellville Democrat 1887-1898
Russellville Courier (miscellaneous dates)
The Courier-Democrat 1898-1906
The Record (Pope County) 1903 and 1907
The Pope County Record 1907, 1909, 1910, and 1917
Twice A Week Record (Pope County) 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1917
7. Russellville Democrat - 1875-1896
8. Russellville Courier-Democrat:
1899-1919
1921-1930
Missing years: 1897, 1898, 1920
9. Russellville (Weekly) Courier Democrat
January 31, 1931-December 29, 1977 (suspended publication)
Missing years: 1944, 1946, 1949, 1950
10. The Courier-Democrat (name changed before 1924 to Daily Courier-Democrat):
January 1, 1912-November 11, 1914 (Missing: Dec. 29, 1914-Sept. 1924)
October 1924-December 20, 1976 (Missing: all of 1950 except May, June and
Dec. and Dec. 21, 1976-Dec. 31, 1977)
1978-August 1994
11. The Courier (name changed in 1994 from Courier-Democrat)
September 1994-within a couple of months of the present date
12. Arkansas Gazette
1819-1842
1865-April 18, 1871
January-December 1869
April 19, 1871-December 30, 1875
January 1, 1891-July 5, 1894
July 6, 1894-April 27, 1895
January 1936-December 1936 (weekly) (Nov. and Dec. 1936 missing)
January 1988-October 18, 1991 (daily)
The microfilm rolls of early Arkansas Gazette newspapers do not include the Saturday and Sunday issues.(These are the rolls of the afternoon editions of the newspaper which do not contain Saturday or Sunday issues.)
13. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette -This collection is updated monthly.
January 1, 1992-to within a couple of months of the present date
14. Don't forget that the Courier and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette are online!