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Big Rapids Distribution was a Detroit-based distributor focusing on underground newspapers, radical literature, and underground comix.They were responsible for the unusually good coverage that underground comix and underground papers got in the Michigan area in the early 1970s, when they could be found in most full-service newsstands there.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Metro Community Newspapers, Livonia [citation needed] Michigan Journal (1854–1868) Detroit "the first German newspaper in Detroit, that was founded in 1854 by two brothers: August and Conrad Marxhausen."
Comstock himself went bankrupt in 1896, and the building ownership was assumed by the Michigan Trust Company of Grand Rapids. The Trust sold the building to William P. Nisbett, a retired newspaper editor from Big Rapids, in 1900 for $20,000. Nisbett was born in London in 1847, and in 1861 emigrated with his family to the United States. [3]
The oldest alumni magazine in the United States is Wayland Academy's Greetings, founded in 1882. [3] Still published today, Greetings was initially mailed to Baptist families throughout Wisconsin, but by the July 1888 issue was devoted to "give former students a picture of present Wayland life and to furnish information regarding those who have once been its students."
This is a list of defunct newspapers of the United States.Only notable names among the thousands of such newspapers are listed, primarily major metropolitan dailies which published for ten years or more.
Woodbridge N. Ferris was born in a log cabin near Spencer, New York, on January 6, 1853, the first of seven children born to John Ferris Jr. and Estella (Reed) Ferris. [1] [2] He was raised and educated in Spencer, and at age 14 enrolled in Spencer Academy. [1]
Milton Griepp (born c. 1954) is an American businessman who has spent the bulk of his career involved with American comic books.He was the co-founder and CEO of Capital City Distribution, a distributor of comic books and related material, from 1980 to 1996.