Here we have new papers from the North Carolina Collection that have never been microfilmed! The North Carolina Collection originated in 1844 and is the largest traditional collection of library materials for any state. Learn more about the NCC here!

These additions include:

• The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1917-1918
• The Randolph Herald (Asheborough, N.C.) – 1848
• The Daily Advance (Asheville, N.C.) – 1884
• The Mountain Voice (Bakersville, N.C.) – 1881
• Our Fatherless Ones (Barium Springs, N.C.) – 1903-1912
• The Blowing Rocket (Blowing Rock, N.C.) – 1942
• The Chapel Hillian (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1890-1891
• The Clarkton Express (Clarkton, N.C.) – 1907
• Recorder and North Carolina Tobacco Journal (Durham, N.C.) – 1883
• The Daily News (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1865
• Goldsboro Daily Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1889-1892
• The Eastern Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) – 1898
• The Henderson Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1863
• The Western North Carolina Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1896
• The Daily Free Press (Kinston, N.C.) – 1908-1909
• The Laurinburg Enterprise (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1881
• The Monroe Enquirer (Monroe, N.C.) – 1875-1881
• Ocracoke Island Beacon (Ocracoke, N.C.) – 1941
• The Orphans’ Friend and Masonic Journal (Oxford, N.C.) – 1881-1912
• The Church Intelligencer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1865
• The Menagerie (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1857
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1877
• The Friend and Templar (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
• Semi-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• The Star, and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1818
• The Reidsville Times (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1882
• The Roanoke-Chowan Times (Rich Square, N.C.) – 1907-1910
• The Rockingham Rocket (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1887
• Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1906
• The Daily Union Banner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1866
• Shelby Review (Shelby, N.C.) – 1893
• The Sandhill Citizen (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1917
• The Daily Landmark (Statesville, N.C.) – 1879
• The Wadesboro Intelligencer (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1886
• The Dew Drop (Wadesborough, N.C.) – 1853
• The Colonist (Warm Springs, N.C.) – 1870-1871
• The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1908
• Wilmington Chronicle (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1849
• The Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1854-1855
• Wilmington Journal (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1880-1894

This week we have another 45 newspapers added to DigitalNC including our first titles from Ridgeway, North Carolina!

In the June 15^th, 1920 issue of the Asheville Citizen we have an article celebrating UNC’s class of 1920 where recent graduate, and Asheville native, Thomas Wolfe reads the class poem and presents the class gift at an alumni event. It would be almost a decade until his iconic debut novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is published.

Asheville Citizen, June 15, 1920

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:

Asheville

• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900-1923

Concord

• Concord Weekly Gazette (Concord, N.C.) – 1855-1857
• The Carolina Flag (Concord, N.C.) – 1861-1862
• The Concord Sun (Concord, N.C.) – 1878-1880
• The People’s Paper (Concord, N.C.) – 1879
• The Temperance Herald (Concord, N.C.) – 1881
• The Enterprise (Concord, N.C.) – 1883
• The Prohibition Banner (Concord, N.C.) – 1886
• The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1904-1905

Durham

• The Tobacco Plant (Durham, N.C.) – 1875

Fayetteville

• North-Carolina Intelligencer, and Fayetteville Advertiser (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1806-1808
• The Fayetteville Index (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1915-1917

Greensboro

• The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1881-1883
• The Daily Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1883

Highlands

• Blue Ridge Enterprise (Highlands, N.C.) – 1883-1885

Kinston

• American Advocate (Kinston, N.C.) – 1858-1859
• The Kinston Free Press (Kinston, N.C.) – 1920-1922

Laurinburg

• The Exchange (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1911-1913
• The Laurinburg Exchange (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1913-1916

Lenoir

• The Lenoir Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1907-1909

Louisburg

• The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1875-1876

Mocksville

• The Davie Times (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1881-1887

Nashville

• The Argonaut (Nashville, N.C.) – 1890

New Bern

• The North Carolina Circular, and Newbern Weekly Advertiser (New Bern, N.C.) – 1803-1805
• The Morning Herald (New Bern, N.C.) – 1807-1808
• Newbern Herald (New Bern, N.C.) – 1809-1810
• The True Republican, and Newbern Weekly Advertiser (New Bern, N.C.) – 1810-1811
• The Carolinian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1815
• The Hornet’s Nest (New Bern, N.C.) – 1847
• Newbern Enquirer (New Bern, N.C.) – 1860
• The Daily Herald (New Bern, N.C.) – 1868
• The Campaign Anti-Radical (New Bern, N.C.) – 1870
• The Daily Liberal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1872

Pittsboro

• The Communicator (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1849-1850

Polkton

• The Ansonian (Polkton, N.C.) – 1875

Raleigh

• The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1911

Randleman

• The Political Broadaxe (Randleman, N.C.) – 1890

Reidsville

• The Record (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1872-1873
• The Enterprise (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1875
• Reidsville News (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1875-1879

Ridgeway

• The Daily Graphic (Ridgeway, N.C.) – 1890
• The Ridgway Press (Ridgeway, N.C.) – 1869

Rockingham

• The Rocket (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1891-1896

Wadesboro

• North Carolina Argus (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1854-1856

Winston-Salem

• Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1897

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 newspapers up on DigitalNC! These titles span 32 towns and almost as many counties! This batch also includes our first additions from the towns of Waco, Pores Knob, La Grange, Leaksville, Mount Olive, and Manson!

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:

• Morehead City Weekly News (Morehead City, N.C.) – 1892
• Pearson’s Papers (Boomer, N.C.) – 1923
• Mount Olive Advertiser (Mount Olive, N.C.) – 1898-1900
• The Fool=Killer (Pores Knob, N.C.) – 1925-1929
• The Newton Enterprise (Newton, N.C.) – 1879-1918
• The Old North State (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1866-1868
• The Hendersonville News (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1919
• The Littleton Courier (Littleton, N.C.) – 1892
• The Magnolia Advertiser (Magnolia, N.C.) – 1872
• The Morning News (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1887
• King’s Weekly (Greenville, N.C.) – 1901
• Farm and Fireside (High Point, N.C.) – 1872
• La Grange Vidette (La Grange, N.C.) – 1875
• The Davidson Record (Lexington, N.C.) – 1876
• The Home Companion (Manson, N.C.) – 1897
• The Morganton Star (Morganton, N.C.) – 1885-1889
• The Rural Chronicle (Waco, N.C.) – 1884
• Surry Weekly Visitor (Mount Airy, N.C.) – 1872-1880
• The Mount Airy News (Mount Airy, N.C.) – 1896-1914
• The Laurinburg Enterprise (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1880
• Scotchman and Observer (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1873
• The Madison Leader (Madison, N.C.) – 1888
• The Madison News (Madison, N.C.) – 1890
• The Mocksville Herald (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1912
• Mocksville Enterprise (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1917-1938
• The Lamp Post (Marion, N.C.) – 1881
• The Western Enterprise (Marion, N.C.) – 1862
• The Citizen (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1859-1860
• Albemarle Southron and Union Advocate (Murfreesboro, N.C.) – 1860
• The Trumpet (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1886-1888
• The Lincoln County News (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1919-1924
• The Weekly News (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1855
• American Eagle (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1857-1860
• Louisburg Union & North Carolina Miscellany (Louisburg, N.C.) – 1846-1847
• The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1877-1878
• The Daily Call (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1889
• The Weekly Raleigh Register, and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1842
• The Argus (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1902-1903
• The Weekly Argus (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1903-1904
• The Lumberton Argus (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1904-1905
• The Asheville Register (Asheville, N.C.) – 1904-1905
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900, 1926
• Asheville Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900
• The Milton Gazette (Milton, N.C.) – 1892-1893
• The Milton Herald (Milton, N.C.) – 1898-1900
• The Milton Advertiser (Milton, N.C.) – 1886-1891
• The Leaksville Reporter (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1888
• Leaksville Herald (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1860-1861
• Dan Valley Echo (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1885-1887
• The Leaksville Gazette (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1883
• Herald of the Times (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1835-1836
• The Elizabeth City News (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1891-1894
• The Albemarle Register (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1874-1875
• The Weekly Transcript (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1867
• North Carolina Native Sentinel (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1856
• The Falcon (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1881-1890
• The Daily Courier (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1860
• The Gleaner (Fayetteville, N.C.) -1883
• Wide Awake (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1876
• The Cape Fear Banner (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1880
• Campaign Herald (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1876
• Solid South (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1894
• The Journal (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1888
• The Statesman (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1873-1874
• Dollar Weekly (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1886
• The Fayetteville Index (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1909-1914
• The Fayetteville News (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1866-1868
• North Carolina Gazette (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1873-1880
• The North Carolina Gazette (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1892-1893
• Evening News (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1886-1887

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.

The front page of the Laurinburg Exchange, dated April 1916. Topics include the local County Commencement, Passion Week and the local churches, and debate teams from local schools competing in Chapel Hill.

61 issues of The Laurinburg Exchange have been newly digitized and added to DigitalNC. These are the first issues from The Laurinburg Exchange to be added to our collection, covering dates and issues from August 1889 to December 1926. Published since 1882, The Laurinburg Exchange serves the readers of Laurinburg and Scotland County to this day. The Exchange joins two other newspapers in our collection that cover Scotland County: the student newspapers for Presbyterian Junior College and St. Andrews University.

A reading list for local high school students for the years 1924-1925.

Looking through these newspapers, many of the articles are about local issues concerning the citizens and residents of Scotland County. Municipal issues, like elections and political developments, were written about especially often. Some news from throughout the state was also posted in the Exchange. However, its coverage was mostly focused on local issues – at any moment, the paper might have been notifying residents of changes in their courts or new stocked items in local businesses, or for example, warning residents about a local fever outbreak. In the photo on the right, the Exchange published a list of required books and associated course prices for local high schoolers.

Adding The Laurinburg Exchange to our collection represents a new wealth of knowledge about the lives of ordinary North Carolinians at the turn of the 20th century.