Points North Newsletters
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November 2008
New Titles Added To Historical Newspapers Site
Two newspapers have been added to the Northern New York Historical Newspapers site, which is now comprised of more than 30 newspapers, and more than 1,270,000 pages.
Heuvelton’s newspaper "The Bee" and "The Pulaski Democrat" are the newest papers to be added to news.nnyln.net/ The site is provided free of charge to the public by the Northern New York Library Network.
The run of "The Bee" is from 1912-1923, and includes the very first issue of that paper. NNYLN Digital Technical Agnes Hoey worked on scanning this project, and pointed out the name of the paper is, indeed unusual, and it also contained some rather interesting content.
A story on the front page of volume 1, issue 1 dated March 9, 1912 stated, "BEHOLD THE BEE! Perhaps some will think it is too early for the bee but if it doesn’t meet with too frosty a reception, we see no reason why it shouldn’t thrive and bring some merriment and profit to the home. The question is ‘To be or not to be’ it is for you to say: it will prove as entertaining as the telephone and won’t cost nearly as much for we all can come together and discuss the latest fad, the latest chance, the latest party, of our village and thus B in touch with the great events of the village."
"This was not like every other paper of its time," Ms. Hoey said. "Heuvelton is not a big town. The paper itself is not big; it’s physically smaller than many other papers."
She explained she was able to actually scan several of the papers right at the NNY Library Network office on a small flat bed scanner. She scanned 22 issues of the paper, and over 40 issues were added to the newspaper website from microfilm.
"This was just fun to work on," Ms. Hoey smiled. "It was more home grown. Many of the papers from that era had a cookie-cutter style and layout. This one was much different from the other projects I’ve worked on."
An amazing 156 years of Pulaski and area information is now available online for anyone interested in digging into the distant past, or the more recent events of our times.
The run of "The Pulaski Democrat" is from 1834-1990, contains 63,500 pages and includes the "Pulaski Democrat" (1853-1854, 1859-1990), "Banner Times" (March 1985-April 1988), "Pulaski Banner" (1834-1835), "Pulaski Advocate" (1840-1841), "Richland Courier" (1847-1850), and the "Northern Democrat" (1850-1853).
In reviewing the database of papers, it is interesting to see how a search for "local news" changes from the reporting of how people spent their weekend and who came to town to visit in 1912, to more meaty news regarding how local meetings are covered by the press, and a crackdown on welfare in the 1980s.
The newspapers may be searched by county or individual paper.
Keep watch for word of the addition of the "Norwood News," which will have a run from 1879-1941.
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