"Tamaroa Times" and "Tamaroa Bugle"

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Lisa HayCraft of Tamaroa recently purchase the home of her uncle Kenneth Pittman who passed away in 2009. That purchase included the contents of the house. While exploring the house and its many wonderful treasures she came across copies of Tamaroa's two weekly newspapers from the turn of the last century. She has copies of "The Tamaroa Bugle" (November 1, 1894 edition pictured) and "The Tamaroa Times (May 10, 1917 edition pictured). The Bugle was published by Campbell Hardy and sold for $1.50 a year. The Tamaroa Times was published by H.L. Farmer and sold for 50 cents a year. At one time, Tamaroa was seriously being considered as the home of Southern Illinois University--then a teacher's college--so the Times' publisher's box heralded Tamaroa as "the future hub of Egypt with a population of $1,000." At the time the town benefitted from many businesses including a dry goods store, drug store, the "Bank of Tamaroa", undertaker John Lisenby. The paper featured Talmage's sermon, the Illinois Central and WC & W Railroad weekly schedules and an ad that included a Steinway grand piano for $900.