Chronicling America free digitized newspapers update

Chronicling America is a long-running part of the Library of Congress website. If you don’t know about this free access to thousands of newspaper and how it came about check here. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/. This morning my email had this update to the newspapers now digitized. Click on the Subscribe tab near the top of the About page to receive these updates.

Recent additions to Chronicling America include:

  • The Cumberland Echo (Cumberland, OH), 1893-1899. The editor published local, state, national, and international news, as well as serialized stories.
  • Gadsden County Times (Quincy, FL), 1907-1963. Supported agricultural and local news.
  • The Guernsey Gazette (Guernsey, WY), 1905-1927. Published local news and stories for the few hundred residents.
  • The Oakwood Press (Oakwood/Dayton, OH), 1939-1954. At the time of publication, this newspaper claimed it was Dayton’s most circulated newspaper.
  • The People’s Defender (West Union, OH), 1922-1943. Supported the Democratic political party candidates and goals as well as local news from Adams County. The paper is still published today.
  • South Omaha Stockman (South Omaha, NE), 1886. The Stockman was a short-lived newspaper that published information from the Union Stock Yards in Nebraska.
  • The Tri-county News (Grand Rapids, OH), 1915-1949. This newspaper published local news of interest to Grand Rapids, Wood, Henry, and Lucas Counties.
  • Toledo (Toledo, OH), 1931-1956. Known as “the only Hungarian newspaper in Toledo and vicinity,” the editor Geza Farkas expressed “fervent patriotism for his adopted country.”
  • Weekly Courier-Journal (1876-1896) and the Twice-a-week Courier Journal (1897, 1902) (Louisville, KY). The newspaper published local and state news, and the Twice-a-week issues published a News Edition on Wednesday and Family Edition on Saturday.
  • The Wisconsin Enterprise-Blade (Milwaukee, WI), 1925-1936. An African American newspaper that published local and church news from Milwaukee and neighboring cities.

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