We have another 30 titles up on DigitalNC this week! This batch brings us our first newspapers from Dallas, Fairmont, Lake Landing, Maiden, and Newland, North Carolina!

In the January 8^th, 1891 issue of the Monroe Enquirer-Register we have an ad for a fledging discount store in Monroe, North Carolina called The New York Racket, which will become the shopping mall staple we know as Belk. Founded by William Henry Belk in 1888, the store would change its name to Belk Brothers in 1898 and go on to become one of the largest department store chains in the country.

January 8th, 1891

Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.

This week’s additions include:

Belhaven

• The Belhaven Citizen (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1914
• The Belhaven Times (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1929
• The Belhaven Times and the Hyde County Record (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1933-1934

Black Mountain

• The Black Mountain News (Black Mountain, N.C.) – 1980

Creedmoor

• Creedmoor News (Creedmoor, N.C.) – 1913

Dallas

• The Dallas Eagle (Dallas, N.C.) – 1891
• The Truth (Dallas, N.C.) – 1903

Fairmont

• The Fairmont Times (Fairmont, N.C.) – 1933
• The Times-Messenger (Fairmont, N.C.) – 1941
• The Fairmont Messenger (Fairmont, N.C.) – 1941

Forest City

• The Carolina News (Forest City, N.C.) – 1952

Gastonia

• The Community Survey (Gastonia, N.C.) – 1921

Iredell County

• The County News (Iredell County, N.C.) – 1953

Lake Landing

• The Mattamuskeet Clarion (Lake Landing, N.C.) – 1925

Lincolnton

• The Lincoln County Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1908

Maiden

• The Maiden Times (Maiden, N.C.) – 1969-1974

Manteo

• The Coastland Times With Which is Combined The Pilot and Herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter (Manteo, N.C.) – 1963-1974

Monroe

• Monroe Enquirer-Register (Monroe, N.C.) – 1891

Mooresville

• The Mooresville Record (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1897
• The Record-Times (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1899
• The Rounder and the News Leader (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1937
• The News Leader (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1939

Newland

• The Avery Post (Newland, N.C.) – 1955

Rocky Mount

• The Evening Telegram (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1916-1954

Shelby

• The Highlander and Shelby News (Shelby, N.C.) – 1921

Statesville

• The New Deal (Statesville, N.C.) – 1933-1934
• Statesville Daily Record (Statesville, N.C.) – 1947-1953
• The Iredell Morning News (Statesville, N.C.) – 1956-1959

Swan Quarter

• Hyde County Record (Swan Quarter, N.C.) – 1928-1930

Taylorsville

• The Taylorsville News (Taylorsville, N.C.) – 1895

If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.

This week we have another 70 titles up on DigitalNC including over 1,000 issues of The Robesonian, 1,000 issues of The Western Sentinel, 3,000 issues of The Reidsville Review, 4,000 issues of The News and Observer, and almost 4,000 issues of the Salisbury Evening Post!

In the March 8th, 1914 issue of The News and Observers we have an article detailing a practice game played by the Baltimore Orioles while in Fayetteville. This happens to be the game where a 19 year old George Herman “Babe” Ruth hit his first home run as a professional baseball player. Ruth was also given his iconic nickname “Babe” while in Fayetteville on this trip.

The News and Observer, March 8th, 1914

Image via The Fayetteville Observer

Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.

This week’s additions include:

Asheboro

• Asheboro Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1902

Asheville

• Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1891-1900
• The Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1906-1907

Belhaven

• Belhaven Journal (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1916-1923
• Beaufort-Hyde News (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1966-1980

Brevard

• Brevard News (Brevard, N.C.) – 1917

Charlotte

• Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1893-1897

Cherryville

• The Eagle (Cherryville, N.C.) – 1915-1919

Clayton

• The Clayton News (Clayton, N.C.) – 1914-1966

Concord

• The Bright Mason (Concord, N.C.) – 1873-1874

Cooleemee

• The Cooleemee Journal (Cooleemee, N.C.) – 1956-1962

Creedmoor

• Creedmoor Times-News (Creedmoor, N.C.) – 1913-1914

Durham

• The Morning Herald (Durham, N.C.) – 1913-1914

East Bend

• The Yadkin Ripple (East Bend, N.C.) – 1902

Elizabeth City

• The Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1916
• The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1916-1917

Forest City

• The Free Press (Forest City, N.C.) – 1913

Gastonia

• The Gastonia Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.) – 1908

Goldsboro

• Goldsboro Daily Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1905-1920

Greenville

• King’s Weekly (Greenville, N.C.) – 1903-1905

Kenly

• The Kenly Observer (Kenly, N.C.) – 1927

Leaksville

• Leaksville Herald (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1861

Lenoir

• The Semi-Weekly News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1900
• The Weekly News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1902-1905
• The Lenoir Weekly News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1905-1915
• The Lenoir News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1906, 1914-16

Lincolnton

• Lincoln Progress (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1874
• The Lincoln Journal (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1903-1906

Lumberton

• The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1903-1923

Mocksville

• The Davie Times (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1902

Mooresville

• The Mooresville Enterprise (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1901-1902

Moravian Falls

• The Yellow-Jacket (Moravian Falls, N.C.) – 1928

New Bern

• The Sun (New Bern, N.C.) – 1911

Raleigh

• The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1906-1923

Red Springs

• The Farmer and Scottish Chief (Red Springs, N.C.) – 1890

Reidsville

• The Weekly Review (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1889-1899
• The Reidsville Review (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1899-1923

Rocky Mount

• Rocky Mount Mail (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1875-1876

Rutherfordton

• The Sun (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1911

Salisbury

• Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1905-1923
• Salisbury Post (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1908-1912
• Yadkin Valley Herald (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1918-1919

Selma

• The Johnstonian (Selma, N.C.) – 1925

Shelby

• The Cleveland Star (Shelby, N.C.) – 1902-1904
• The Highlander (Shelby, N.C.) – 1912-1920

Smithfield

• Johnston County Record (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1933-1934
• The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1977

Spruce Pines & Burnsville

• The Tri-County News (Spruce Pine & Burnsville, N.C.) – 1940

Statesville

• Statesville Landmark (Statesville, N.C.) – 1874-1875
• The Landmark (Statesville, N.C.) – 1875-1903
• The Statesville American (Statesville, N.C.) – 1878
• The Statesville Mascot (Statesville, N.C.) – 1902

Taylorsville

• The Mountain Scout (Taylorsville, N.C.) – 1902-1906

Washington

• Washington Dispatch (Washington, N.C.) – 1861
• The North State Press (Washington, N.C.) – 1880
• The Washington Gazette (Washington, N.C.) – 1884-1887
• The Evening Messenger (Washington, N.C.) – 1896-1899
• The Gazette-Messenger (Washington, N.C.) – 1900-1904
• Washington Progress (Washington, N.C.) – 1930-1931

Waynesville

• Waynesville Courier (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1914-1915
• The Carolina Mountaineer and Waynesville Courier (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1921

Wilmington

• Wilmington Weekly Chronicle (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1840-1841
• Wilmington Chronicle (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1841-1845
• The Daily Journal (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1851-1852
• The Daily Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1866

Windsor

• Windsor Ledger (Windsor, N.C.) – 1913

Winston-Salem

• The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1903-1922
• Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1922

If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.

This week we have another 41 titles up on DigitalNC! In this batch we have a lot of new papers from Durham and Beaufort, as well as our first additions from Mocksville, Pine Forest, and Kenansville!

Last month we added our first copies of The Nation from Buffalo Springs. The Nation was a handwritten paper published by John McLean Harrington, a Harnett County man who would painstakingly copy each of his papers by hand for his roughly 100 subscribers. This week we have five more of Harrington’s handwritten papers: The Young American from Buffalo Springs, The Weekly Eagle from Pine Forest, and Harrington, N.C.’s The Times, The Weekly News, and The Semi-Weekly News.

Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.

This week’s additions include:

• The Clinton Independent (Clinton, N.C.) – 1856-1858
• Eastern Courier (Hertford, N.C.) – 1895-1896
• The Nation (Buffalo Springs, N.C.) – 1858
• The Young American (Buffalo Springs, N.C.) – 1858
• The Weekly Eagle (Pine Forest, N.C.) – 1860
• The Eagle (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1868-1873
• The Semi-Weekly News (Harrington, N.C.) – 1860
• The Weekly News (Harrington, N.C.) – 1860-1864
• The Times (Harrington, N.C.) – 1867-1869
• Eastern Carolina News (Kenansville, N.C.) – 1908-1911
• The Chronicle (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1916-1917
• The Enterprise (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1917-1918
• The Albemarle Enterprise (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1919
• The News (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1919
• Stanly County Herald (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1919
• The Stanly News-Herald (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1919
• The Weekly Record (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1887-1888
• The Beaufort Eagle (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1876
• The Herald (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1893
• Beaufort Journal (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1857-1858
• Carteret County Telephone (Beaufort, N.C.) – 1881-1885
• The Clayton Bud (Clayton, N.C.) – 1883-1886
• The Weekly Bud (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1886-1887
• Creedmoor Times-News (Creedmoor, N.C.) – 1915-1919
• Durham Daily Dispatch (Durham, N.C.) – 1880
• The Durham Herald (Durham, N.C.) – 1876
• The Durham County Republican (Durham, N.C.) – 1884
• The Truth (Durham, N.C.) – 1884
• Daily Record (Durham, N.C.) – 1898
• The Daily Reporter (Durham, N.C.) – 1885
• The Durham Weekly Globe (Durham, N.C.) – 1889-1892
• Durham Globe (Durham, N.C.) – 1895-1896
• Saturday Night (Durham, N.C.) – 1893
• The Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1826-1827
• The Carolina Beacon (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1836-1837
• Southern Telescope (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1837
• The Carolina Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1837-1839
• The Davie Times (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1887-1903
• The Davie Record (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1899-1922
• Chatham Observer (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1901-1904
• Chatham Citizen (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1897-1899
• The Day (Oxford, N.C.) – 1890-1892
• The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1895-1897
• The Evening Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1904-1910
• Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1910-1921

If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.