A Brief History of Mount Clemens Newspapers

The earliest known newspaper in Mount Clemens was the Mount Clemens Patriot, a weekly publication founded in 1840 and later absorbed by the Macomb Gazette. The Gazette was sold in 1856 and the name was changed to the Republican Standard. The Standard became the Mount Clemens Monitor, a weekly publication, in 1866. A number of other publications came and went briefly through the years.

Daily news publication came on the scene at the turn of the century. In 1901, the Daily Leader and its weekly adjunct, the Mount Clemens Press, were born. The Monitor began publishing daily in 1940. In 1942, the Monitor and Leader merged, and the first edition of the Daily Monitor-Leader was published on April 3, 1942. In 1964, the Daily Monitor-Leader was merged with the South Macomb News, a weekly, and the Tri-City Progress, another weekly which served the Warren-Center Line-Utica area. After a brief stint as the Monitor-Progress, the new paper became the Macomb Daily. The Macomb Daily, still published in Mount Clemens, continues to serve as Macomb County's daily newspaper today.

Mount Clemens Public Library holds a fairly complete run of microfilmed newspapers for the years 1882-present. Significant gaps in the run exist for the year 1898, January 1901 - June 29, 1902, November - December 1902, and the year 1922. Detailed holdings by newspaper title are as follows:

Mount Clemens Monitor (weekly):

• miscellaneous issue reel including: Jan. 29, 1869; Feb. 26, 1869; Jan. 2, 1880-May 28, 1880; May 1898; Aug. 9, 1900; Aug. 1, 1902; Sept. 18, 1916, Jan. 6, 1922.
• Jan. 6, 1882-Feb. 12, 1892
• Apr. 16, 1891 - Dec. 30, 1897 [some gaps on the reel]
• Jan. 25, 1894 - Dec. 30, 1897
• Jan. 6, 1899 - Jan. 11, 1901
• Jan. 2, 1903 - Jul. 23, 1909
• Jul. 30, 1909 - Feb. 2, 1912 [damaged; part missing]
• Feb. 9, 1912 - Dec. 30, 1921
• Jan. 7, 1926 - Dec. 25, 1931
• Jan. 6, 1933 - Dec. 30, 1936

Mount Clemens Advertiser-Monitor

• 1937 - Aug. 23, 1940

Mount Clemens Daily Monitor

• Aug. 26, 1940 - April 2, 1942

Mount Clemens Press

• Jan. 5, 1883 - Feb. 12, 1892
• Jan. 27, 1887 - Apr. 9, 1891 [some gaps on the reel]

Mount Clemens Daily Leader

• miscellaneous issue reel includes: Nov. 11, 1918; Dec. 11, 1918; Feb. 3 - Feb. 7, 1919; Jul. 11, 1919; Aug. 25, 1919; Aug. 9, 1923.
• Jun. 30, 1902 - Oct. 28, 1902
• Feb. 1, 1921 - Jul. 30, 1921
• Mar. 1923 - Dec. 31, 1929
• Oct. 26, 1931 - Feb. 9, 1942

Mount Clemens Monitor-Leader (daily)

• Apr. 3, 1942 - Aug. 1964

Mount Clemens Monitor-Progress (daily)

• Sept. 1, 1964 - Oct. 14, 1964

Macomb Daily

• Oct. 15, 1964 - present

Armada Times

• Sept. 18, 1919 - November 15, 1979

Richmond Review

• Jan. 1911 - Dec. 1959 [on CD]

Saint Clair Shores News

• 1926-1931

South Macomb News

• 1931-1964

Utica Sentinel

• Sept. 1, 1876 - Nov. 28, 1919
• Jan. 21, 1921 - Dec. 31, 1926

The library holds no indexes for the newspapers, except for the following items:

• Macomb County Obituary Index
• Partial index to Macomb Daily, August 1994-present
• The Macomb Daily and Suburban Sunday Obituary Index, 1991-present
• Index of Obituaries, 1930-31 and 1933-34, Mount Clemens Monitor Newspaper
• Index of Obituaries, 1980-83, Macomb Daily newspaper

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