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Western Progress

Brownsville free press (Brownsville, Minn.) 1865-1869  Browse the title

Brownsville Free Press was published weekly between December 1865 and May 1869, when it was absorbed by Western Progress.

Western progress (Brownsville, Minn.; Spring Valley, Minn.) 1869-1877  Browse the title

Western Progress was published weekly in Brownsville and later Spring Valley, Minnesota, between April 1869 and September 1877, when it merged with Spring Valley Citizen to form Spring Valley Vidette.

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The Hub contains geographically and culturally diverse newspapers published between 1849 and today. Due to potential copyright restrictions most issues published after 1977 can only be accessed from the Gale Family Library at the Minnesota History Center.

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