We have 21 new titles this week, including a couple from Petersburg, Virginia! In 1863, printer John William Syme relocated the Raleigh Register to Petersburg, Virginia. Production continued only until 1864, when the scarcity of supplies forced him to cease publication.

This week we also have one of the earliest advertisements for Pepsi buried on the last page of this issue of the New Bern Daily Journal. Created in a New Bern drug store in 1893, Pepsi was originally named “Brad’s Drink” after its creator and store owner, Caleb Bradham. In 1898 Bradham, changed the name to “Pepsi-Cola,” and in 1902 registered a trademark for the name. The first ad, misspelled as “Pesi-Cola,” is from August 8th, 1902 and the second, with the corrected name, is from August 31st, 1902.

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:

• Raleigh Daily Telegram (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
• The Daily Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1851
• Daily Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
• The Semi-Weekly Register (Petersburg, VA) – 1864
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1800-1825
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1825-1841
• The Weekly Register (Petersburg, VA) – 1863
• The Progressive Farmer and Southern Farm Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1917
• The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1917
• The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1916
• The Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1894
• The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881-1894
• The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1884-1888
• New Bern Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• Weekly Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
• Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1913-1915
• The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.) – 1916
• The Asheville News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1880-1883
• Daily Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1881-1888

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.