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Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about The Chapel Hill Weekly, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
The Chapel Hill Historical Society's index to the Chapel Hill Weekly newspaper, the first volume covering March 1923 through February 1928, with entries for the names and events the paper reported. Published in 1992 with errata tipped in.
Index to the newspaper column Roland Giduz wrote for the Chapel Hill Weekly and the Chapel Hill Newspaper, printed on paper in June 1996 from his own card file by the North Carolina Collection. One unpaged volume.
Arthur Ruhl's 1927 New York Herald Tribune piece about the Chapel Hill Weekly and its editor Louis Graves, 1883 to 1965.
Louis Graves (1883-1965) and Mildred Moses Graves left roughly 7,700 items in eleven linear feet, a single 1814 document and then a run from 1876 to 1992, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4010. Graves edited the Chapel Hill Weekly, and topics include North Carolina newspapers and their editors alongside family photographs, travel diaries and the social life of the Graves and Moses families.
Louis Graves, founding editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, is the subject of newspaper clippings and a report in this undated folder from box 4 of the Individuals and Families series, CHHS.001 Vertical File Collection.
James Shumaker, longtime editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, is the subject of this folder of photocopied newspaper and magazine articles. Chapel Hill Historical Society Vertical File Collection, Individuals and Families series, box 8. Undated.
Chapel Hill's town newspaper from its first issue on 1 March 1923 to 29 December 1963, some 2,537 issues. It was published by the Chapel Hill Publishing Company for four decades.
An annual guide to the University of North Carolina and the town around it, begun in 1966 and carried as a special supplement to the Chapel Hill Weekly, later to the Chapel Hill Newspaper and the Chapel Hill News. Issued in volumes with illustrations and a map, it gathers description and travel material on Chapel Hill together with university history.
Announcement printed at Chapel Hill in 1972 that the Chapel Hill Weekly would become a daily on 5 September, publishing Tuesday through Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings. The sheet marks a turn in the town's newspaper history, and topics include American newspapers and the Weekly.
Chapel Hill's town newspaper from 1923 to 1972, published by Louis Graves, with its first issue dated 1 March 1923. It appeared weekly, then twice a week from May 1955 until the last issue on 3 September 1972, fifty volumes in all. Part of the Chronicling America newspaper collection.
Bound volumes of Chapel Hill's hometown papers, the Chapel Hill Weekly and the Chapel Hill News, running from 1923 to 2011. Collection CHHS.003 of the Chapel Hill Historical Society.
Town weekly for Chapel Hill, founded in 1923 by the journalist Louis Graves. It is one of the longest runs among the Chapel Hill titles in the North Carolina Newspapers collection.
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