Karen Milstone Amato asked about Newspapers in Poland, 1870's,
1880's that Jews in the small towns of Poland (like Konskie) would
have had access to, the languages in which they appeared, and their
reach beyond Poland.

Please see the entry on Newspapers and Periodicals in the YIVO
Encyclopedia.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Newspapers_and_Periodicals

Early Hebrew newspapers have been digitized and are online here:
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/newspapers/eng.html

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Program Director, Core Exhibition, Museum of the History of Polish Jews