Local newspapers covered local events/politics, with a healthy of material pulled from other publications. There were a number of weekly and monthly publications. You will find interesting information in: <Niles' Weekly Register>; <The Democratic Review>; <Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review>; <Stryker's American Register and Magazine>; and <The American Register: or General Repository of History, Politics, and Science>. Generally, these show up as bound annual editions in research libraries. There were many others; those noted above are just a sampling. Jack C. Thompson Thompson Conservation Lab Portland, OR [log in to unmask]