Newspaper archives promo for rail

Diving into Johnson County’s history is a snap with the Daily Journal’s new digital archive.

Subscribe and search nearly 500,000 newspapers pages dating back to 1912. You’ll find The Evening Star, the Franklin Evening Star and the Daily Journal in our historical files.

Go to dailyjournal.net/archives.

Here are your options:

Where: dailyjournal.net/archives

What: Searchable digital archives of newspaper pages

Option 1: Access to the Daily Journal.

Cost: $4.95 a month; or $39.95 a year.

This gives you access to the Evening Star, the Franklin Evening Star, the Daily Journal and other AIM Media Indiana newspapers as they are added to the archives. Other AIM newspapers are The (Seymour) Tribune; The Republic (Columbus); Brown County Democrat; and the Daily Reporter in Greenfield.

Option 2: Publishers Extra.

Cost: $19.90 a month; or $139.90 per year.

This package gives you access to nearly 3,900 newspapers (more than 48 million pages) including the Daily Journal and all AIM Media Indiana papers when they go online.

Option 3: Johnson County Public Library branches in Franklin, White River Township, Trafalgar and Clark Pleasant.

Cost: Free

You can get access to the Daily Journal and other AIM Media Indiana papers when they are put online if you are a library member.

Free trial offer

Go to dailyjournal.net/ archives to start a seven-day free trial.