The Daily Sentinel Index, which resides on the Colorado Mesa University website at this link, contains results for 326,898 newspapers articles from 1900 to 2005. Each result in the index includes the headline, subject, date of the issue, and in some cases, the page number that the article is on. With the information in the index, you are then able to easily access the Daily Sentinel issues on microfilm in the lower level of the Central Library for the following years.
November 20, 1893 to December 31, 2010 with the exception of January 1950 through March 1950, February 1981, and January 1993.
The reverse index is organized by alphabetically by subject and by clicking on the subject listing for the respective tabs. Links to those tabs are below.
By clicking on each link by subject, you will then see results for the articles. Another option for searching the Daily Sentinel Index is to combine subject and words are in a headline. Below are some examples and links for how this can be strategy can be used.
Subject: "Grand Junction" Headline: "History"
Subject: "Public Library" Headline: "Palisade"
Subject: "Weather" Headline: "Pinon Mesa"
When looking through results, please note that depending on what you are searching for, there might be redundancy as some article fall under multiple subjects. Additionally, the Daily Sentinel issues are online at the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection for November 20,1893 to December 23, 1915. That range can be browsed at this link.
Below this are three boxes showing results by year. Please note that the results increase in number as time advances.
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