This week we have another 35 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC including thousands of issues from the Greensboro Daily News and Charlotte Daily Observer!

In the January 7^th, 1898 issue of the Charlotte Daily Observer, we have a story about a little girl who had swallowed a thimble and was saved by a new invention: the x-ray machine. Dr. Henry Louis Smith, a physics professor at Davidson College, was an early pioneer in x-ray technology. Smith’s machine was used in some of the first clinical applications, such as this, and allowed doctors to safely find and remove the foreign object from the ailing girl’s body.

Charlotte Daily Observer, January 7, 1898

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

• The Western Enterprise (Asheville, N.C.) – 1908-1910

Burlington

• The Burlington News (Burlington, N.C.) – 1887-1917
• Burlington Daily News (Burlington, N.C.) – 1923
• Burlington Daily Times (Burlington, N.C.) – 1924-1926

Charlotte

• Charlotte Daily Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) -1897-1911
• The Daily Journal (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1883
• The Daily Journal-Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1883
• The Journal-Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1883

Durham

• Durham Tobacco Plant (Durham, N.C.) – 1886
• The Tobacco Plant (Durham, N.C.) – 1886-1888

Graham

• The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.) -1881-1907

Greensboro

• Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1909-1922

Highlands

• The Highlander, Macon County and Western North Carolina Advertiser (Highlands, N.C.) – 1885-1887

Milton

• Milton Gazette & Roanoke Advertiser (Milton, N.C.) – 1828
• The Milton Chronicle (Milton, N.C.) – 1874

Salem

• The Weekly Gleaner (Salem, N.C.) – 1828-1829

Southport

• Southport Standard (Southport, N.C.) – 1897-1905
• Southport Herald (Southport, N.C.) – 1905-1909

Spencer

• The Spencer Crescent (Spencer, N.C.) – 1908-1914

Statesville

• Iredell Express (Statesville, N.C.) – 1858-1865
• The Intelligencer (Statesville, N.C.) – 1872-1874
• Statesville American and Tobacco Journal (Statesville, N.C.) – 1886

Tarboro

• Weekly Dispatch (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1897
• Political Synopsis (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1814-1815
• The Tarborough Guide (Tarborough, N.C.) – 1883
• The Tarboro’ Scaevola (Tarborough, N.C.) – 1837

Thomasville

• The Davidsonian (Thomasville, N.C.) – 1910-1915

Wadesboro

• People’s Literary Casket (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1874
• The Plow Boy (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1895-1897
• Wadesboro Courier (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1896-1902

Waynesville

• The Haywood Enterprise (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1908

Wilson

• The Wilson Advance (Wilson, N.C.) – 1880-1899
• The Wilson Times (Wilson, N.C.) – 1923-1929

Windsor

• The Orient (Windsor, N.C.) – 1896-1897
• The Windsor Herald, and Bertie County Register (Windsor, N.C.) – 1833

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.