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.

This week we’ve added another 60 titles to DigitalNC. Included in this batch is the possible origin of a classic North Carolina ghost story!

The Maco Light story tells of a train conductor name Joe Baldwin who was decapitated in a tragic railway accident near the small community of Maco, North Carolina. Legend has it that the ghost of Mr. Baldwin could be seen walking the tracks at night, carrying a lantern and searching for his misplaced head, but once the railroad was removed in the 1970s he was never seen again.

The Southerner, January 12, 1856

As is the case with most folk tales, the story is passed down and embellished over the years and the origin becomes a little fuzzy. There is no record of a “Joe” Baldwin being involved in a wreck, but the January 12^th, 1856 issue of The Southerner has an article detailing a train accident that took place just outside of Wilmington a week earlier. The deceased in this incident is Charles Baldwin, who suffered a fatal head injury during the crash. Given the similarities in these stories, it seems our ghost might have actually stayed in one piece.

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:

Elizabeth City

• Daily Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1905

Greensboro

• The Way of the World (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1862-1864
• The Weekly Tar Heel (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1905-1906
• The Twice-A-Week Tar Heel (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1907

Hendersonville

• The Visitor (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1916-1918
• The Hendersonville Visitor (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1918
• The News of Henderson County (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1918-1919

Oxford

• The Tattler (Oxford, N.C.) – 1921-1922
• The Oxford Leader (Oxford, N.C.) – 1876
• The Torch-Light (Oxford, N.C.) – 1874-1880
• The Oxford Torchlight (Oxford, N.C.) – 1880-1886
• The Torchlight (Oxford, N.C.) – 1886-1888

Rutherfordton

• The Rutherfordton Tribune (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1901-1904
• The Western Vindicator (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1868-1899

Salem

• Weekly Chronicle and Farmers’ Register (Salem, N.C.) – 1836-1837
• The Little Typo (Salem, N.C.) – 1885-1889
• The News (Salem, N.C.) – 1883-1885

Salisbury

• The Salisbury Truth (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1887-1899

Southern Pines

• The Pine Knot (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1886-1888

Southport

• The Southport Leader (Southport, N.C.) – 1895-1896

Tarboro

• Tarboro’ Mercury (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1859-1861
• The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1856-1858, 1869

Taylorsville

• The Taylorsville Index (Taylorsville, N.C.) – 1890-1891

Warrenton

• The Warrenton Courier (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1868
• The Living Present (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1869
• The Warrenton News (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1878-1882
• Home Journal (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1885
• Warrenton (North-Carolina) Reporter (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1824-1841

Washington

• The Republican (Washington, N.C.) – 1839
• Rough and Ready (Washington, N.C.) – 1848
• The Statesman, and Third Congressional District Advertiser (Washington, N.C.) – 1834-1835
• North Carolina Times (Washington, N.C.) – 1856-1860
• The Union Advance Picket (Washington, N.C.) – 1862
• The Eastern Intelligencer (Washington, N.C.) – 1869
• The Union (Washington, N.C.) – 1832
• What Next (Washington, N.C.) – 1876
• Washington Dispatch (Washington, N.C.) – 1857-1861
• Washington Herald (Washington, N.C.) – 1827
• Washington Index (Washington, N.C.) – 1867
• The Washington Gazette (Washington, N.C.) – 1884-1898

Williamston

• Democratic Banner (Williamston, N.C.) – 1856-1857
• Williamston Expositor (Williamston, N.C.) – 1866-1867
• Williamston Mercury (Williamston, N.C.) – 1859

Wilson

• The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.) – 1867-1868
• The Daily News (Wilson, N.C.) – 1900-1901
• The Wilson Ledger (Wilson, N.C.) – 1858-1861
• The Flag of the South (Wilson, N.C.) – 1861
• The Advertiser (Wilson, N.C.) – 1888
• The Advance (Wilson, N.C.) – 1874-1876
• The Wilson News (Wilson, N.C.) – 1899
• The Daily Topic (Wilson, N.C.) – 1873
• Southern Sentinel (Wilson, N.C.) – 1856
• The Little Jewel (Wilson, N.C.) – 1875

Winston

• The Piedmont Advertiser (Winston, N.C.) – 1890
• The Winston Leader (Winston, N.C.) – 1879-1885
• The Daily Pilot (Winston, N.C.) – 1883-1884

Winston-Salem

• The Twin-City Daily Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1892-1914
• Elite (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1900
• The North Carolina Enterprise (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1885-1915
• The Enterprise (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1915

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 60 titles up on DigitalNC! While these papers cover all of North Carolina, almost one third are from Statesville alone!

In the October 3^rd, 1902 issue of Elizabeth City’s Tar Heel, there is an interview with Reginald Aubrey Fessenden’s assistant, Professor Saint Marie. Fessenden was a pioneer in early radio, or “wireless telegraphy,” and was conducting experiments at Manteo on Roanoke Island. In the interview, Prof. Saint Marie seems somewhat pessimistic about the process and its possibilities, which might be due to Fessenden abruptly ending their contract with the Weather Bureau the previous month after conflict arose over ownership of the patent.

Tar Heel, October 3, 1902

However, less than two months later The News and Observer reported that Fessenden’s invention had greatly improved and could now send transmissions to Washington, D.C. On Christmas Eve, 1906, he conducted the first radio broadcast by reading a bible verse and then playing ‘O Holy Night’ on his violin for the ships off the coast of Massachusetts. By 1909, according the the Charlotte Evening Observer, he had perfected the process for which he laid the foundation on the Carolina coast.

News and Observer, November 23, 1902

Evening Chronicle, April 14, 1909

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:

Elizabeth City

• Tar Heel (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1901-1910

Moravian Falls

• The Yellow-Jacket (Moravian Falls, N.C.) – 1895-1928

North Wilkesboro

• The North Wilkesboro Hustler (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) – 1906-1926
• North Wilkesboro News (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) – 1893-1896

Oxford

• The Leisure Hour (Oxford, N.C.) – 1858-1861
• The News of Oxford (Oxford, N.C.) – 1889
• Oxford Banner (Oxford, N.C.) – 1911
• The Granville Whig (Oxford, N.C.) – 1850
• Granville County Reformer (Oxford, N.C.) – 1894
• The Oxford Mercury (Oxford, N.C.) – 1843
• The Oxford Mercury, and District Telegraph (Oxford, N.C.) – 1843-1844
• The Oxford Leader (Oxford, N.C.) – 1875

Pittsboro

• The Communicator (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1847
• Central Reflector (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1833
• The Home (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1887-1889

Rutherfordton

• West-Carolina Record (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1873-1874
• The Rutherford Star and West-Carolina Record (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1874-1875

Salem

• The Farmers’ Reporter (Salem, N.C.) – 1832-1834
• The Farmers’ Reporter and Rural Repository (Salem, N.C.) – 1835-1836
• Carolina Gazette (Salem, N.C.) – 1841

Salisbury

• The Evening World (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1895-1898
• Weekly World (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1895-1896
• Salisbury News (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1878
• The Salisbury Press (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1888
• The Tribune (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1872
• The Daily Gazette (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1865
• The Rowan Whig and Western Advocate (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1852-1855
• The Salisbury Herald (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1855-1857
• The Weekly Jubilee (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1852
• The Prohibitionist (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1881
• Salisbury Weekly Sun (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1897-1904
• Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1904-1905
• The Salisbury Daily Index (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1899-1900
• Salisbury Daily Truth-Index (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1900-1901
• Daily Herald (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1891-1896
• North Carolina Herald (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1885-1898
• The Industrial Record (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1899

Selma

• The Johnstonian (Selma, N.C.) – 1926

Shelby

• The Mountain Eagle (Shelby, N.C.) – 1861
• Shelby Review (Shelby, N.C.) – 1892

Siler City

• The Siler City Grit (Siler City, N.C.) 1905-1920

Smithfield

• The Weekly Herald (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1883
• The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1885-1900

Statesville

• The Mascot (Statesville, N.C.) – 1897-1899
• The Statesville Mascot (Statesville, N.C.) – 1899-1901
• The Evening Mascot (Statesville, N.C.) – 1908-1909

Stonewall

• The Pamlico Enterprise (Stonewall, N.C.) – 1882-1884

Tarboro

• Tarboro’ Press (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1845-1847

Taylorsville

• The Mountain Scout (Taylorsville, N.C.) – 1913-1916

Wadesboro

• The Pee Dee Star (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1854

Warrenton

• The Centennial (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1876
• The Semi-Weekly News (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1856-1857
• Warrenton News (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1850-1861

Washington

• The Weekly Express (Washington, N.C.) – 1873
• Washington Gazette, and Weekly Advertiser (Washington, N.C.) – 1807-1808
• Freeman’s Echo (Washington, N.C.) – 1829
• The New Era (Washington, N.C.) – 1862-1863
• The North State Press (Washington, N.C.) – 1878-1881

Wilson

• The Plaindealer (Wilson, N.C.) – 1869-1873

Windsor

• The Albemarle Press (Windsor, N.C.) – 1874-1876

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 61 titles up on DigitalNC, including our first additions from Charleston, Culler, Red Springs, Rutherfordton, and Sanford! Included in this batch, on the front page of the February 28, 1872 issue of Raleigh’s Weekly Sentinel, is an article detailing the final heist of Robeson County folk hero Henry Berry Lowry.

Portrait thought to be of Henry Berry Lowry. Via the State Archives of North Carolina

Henry Berry Lowry, a Lumbee Native American, was the head of the mostly Native outlaw group known as the Lowry Gang. In addition to typical outlaw activities, the Lowry Gang also helped other Native Americans avoid Confederate work conscription and fought alongside Union soldiers who had escaped Confederate prison camps. While Lowry did often resort to murder to settle personal feuds, he was also considered a sort of Robeson “Robin Hood.” When they committed robberies, they would often share the spoils with the community and would return items such as horses as soon as they were no longer needed. They were known to be “respectful” robbers and would let you off the hook if you could show you didn’t have much.

The Weekly Sentinel, February 28, 1872

In 1869, governor William Holden put a $12,000 bounty on Lowry’s head, which resulted in bloody conflict over the next few years. After successfully evading capture, Lowry planned his final heist in February of 1872. The gang stole a safe from a local carriage manufacturer and were bold enough to take another from the sheriff’s office, walking away with $22,000 (about $520,000 today) and then he disappeared. The bounty was never collected and he was never heard from again. Some locals claim they saw him at a friend’s funeral years later, but we will likely never know what happened to Henry Berry Lowry.

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

• Southern Citizen, & Man of Business (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1836-1837
• Southern Citizen (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1837-1844

Charleston

• Swain County Herald (Charleston, N.C.) – 1889-1890

Charlotte

• The People’s Paper (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1896-1903

Culler

• Pinnacle Era (Culler, N.C.) – 1893
• North Carolina Voice (Culler, N.C.) – 1894

Elizabeth City

• The Old North State, and Nag’s Head Advocate (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1841
• The Old North State (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1849-1854

Goldsboro

• Republican and Patriot (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1853
• North Carolina Republican (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1854

Greensboro

• The Daily Evening Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1888
• Weekly Message (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1851-1867
• The Message (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1867-1870
• The Olive Branch (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1870-1871
• The Greensboro Times (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1868

Halifax

• Roanoke Advocate (Halifax, N.C.) – 1830-1833
• Roanoke Advocate and State Rights Banner (Halifax, N.C.) – 1840-1842
• Roanoke Republican (Halifax, N.C.) – 1843-1855

Hertford

• Perquiman’s Record (Hertford, N.C.) – 1890-1894

North Wilkesboro

• The Hustler (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) – 1899-1905

Oxford

• The Oxford Free Lance (Oxford, N.C.) – 1878
• Oxford Examiner (Oxford, N.C.) – 1830-1838
• Oxford Mercury, and Citizen of Granville (Oxford, N.C.) – 1841

Plymouth

• The Plymouth Banner (Plymouth, N.C.) – 1856
• The Old Flag (Plymouth, N.C.) – 1865
• The Plymouth News (Plymouth, N.C.) – 1849-1850

Raleigh

• The Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1876

Red Springs

• Red Springs Comet (Red Springs, N.C.) – 1892
• The Comet (Red Springs, N.C.) – 1893

Reidsville

• The Reidsville Times (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1876-1889

Rockingham

• Spirit of the South (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1873-1892
• The Pee Dee Courier (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1876
• The Pee Dee Bee (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1879
• The Bee (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1880-1881

Rutherfordton

• The New Regime (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1876
• Carolina Gazette (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1836-1837
• Western Star of Liberty (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1840
• Rutherfordton Intelligencer (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1841-1843
• North Carolina Spectator and Western Advertiser (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1830-1835

Salisbury

• Republican Banner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1854-1857
• The Salisbury Banner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1858-1867
• Yadkin Valley Herald (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1917-1919
• The Daily Union Banner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1865-1866

Sanford

• The Sanford Express (Sanford, N.C.) – 1902-1917

Shelby

• Cleaveland Banner (Shelby, N.C.) – 1872-1874
• Shelby Banner (Shelby, N.C.) – 1875-1876
• New Era (Shelby, N.C.) – 1887-1889
• Shelby Aurora (Shelby, N.C.) – 1875-1906

Tarboro

• The Carolina Banner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1889-1891
• The Farmers’ Advocate (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1891-1892
• The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1883-1885

Taylorsville

• The Alexander County Journal (Taylorsville, N.C.) – 1889-1890

Wadesboro

• The Pee Dee Herald (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1871-1880

Warrenton

• The Record (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1913-1916
• The Warren Record (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1917-1922

Washington

• Washington Progress (Washington, N.C.) – 1914-1922
• The Whig (Washington, N.C.) – 1835-1838
• Washington Whig (Washington, N.C.) – 1839
• Washington Whig and Republican Gazette (Washington, N.C.) – 1839-1842
• North State Whig (Washington, N.C.) – 1842-1854

Winston-Salem

• The Business Guide (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1906-1907

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 40 more titles on DigitalNC from all across North Carolina! Most of these papers are from Raleigh (such as the long-running Raleigh Evening Times and the Methodist Episcopal paper Raleigh Christian Advocate) as well as many papers from smaller communities. We have Rich Square’s Roanoke-Chowan Times, The Warrenton Gazette from Warrenton, The Roanoke News from Weldon, and Richmond County’s Rockingham Rocket. Whether it’s marriage announcements, classifieds for lost pets, or local elections where the winner barely reaches 100 votes, these newspapers give a glimpse into what small town life in North Carolina was like over a hundred years ago.

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 Southern Home (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1870-1881
• The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1877-1910
• Warrenton Gazette (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1872-1897
• The Record (Warrenton, N.C.) – 1892-1912
• Roanoke-Chowan Times (Rich Square, N.C.) – 1907-1926
• The Daily Tobacco Plant (Durham, N.C.) – 1888
• The Tobacco Plant (Durham, N.C.) – 1889
• The Times-Mercury (Hickory, N.C.) – 1899-1912
• Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1923-1924
• Rockingham Rocket (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1888-1890
• Salisbury Daily Sun (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1897-1904
• Salisbury Evening Sun (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1904-1905
• The Salisbury Truth (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1900
• The Salisbury Semi-Weekly Truth-Index (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1900-1903
• Salisbury Daily Truth-Index (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1900
• The Statesville Sentinel (Statesville, N.C.) – 1909-1922
• The Roanoke News (Weldon, N.C.) – 1878-1922
• The Carolina Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871-1872
• Tri-Weekly Constitution (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
• The Weekly Constitution (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
• Daily Constitution (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1875-1876
• North-Carolina Constitutionalist and Peoples’ Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1832-1833
• The Weekly North Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
• The North Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
• The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876-1877
• The Raleigh Weekly News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1878-1880
• Blasting-Powder for Democrats and Conservatives (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
• Southern Illustrated Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1875
• The Episcopal Methodist (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867-1868
• Raleigh Episcopal Methodist (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1869-1870
• Raleigh Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1894-1899
• Daily Examiner (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
• The Raleigh Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890
• The Daily Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890-1894
• The Raleigh Evening Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1905-1906
• The Raleigh Daily Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1912
• The Raleigh Daily Tribune (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1897
• The Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866-1867
• The Union Herald (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1919-1922
• Raleigh Weekly Telegram (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871

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 are sharing the second installment of titles on DigitalNC that were brought to us by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in a cooperative effort with the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries.

The NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress with the intention of creating a vast, searchable database of newspapers and other historical documents. You can currently search all of the NDNP issues on the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website. Those same issues will be available on our newspaper database, allowing you to search that content alongside the other papers on DigitalNC.  The week’s titles are the following:

• Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) – 1888-1934
• Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1931-1937
• The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1848-1876
• The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1853-1887
• Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1836-1858
• Marion Progress (Marion, N.C.) – 1930-1931
• The News and Views (Jacksonville, N.C.) – 1942-1952
• Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1889-1901
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1877-1915
• The Free Press (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1898-1905
• The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.) – 1888
• The Review (High Point, N.C.) – 1910-1921
• Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1917-1922
• French Broad Hustler (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1905-1919
• The Durham Daily Globe (Durham, N.C.) – 1887-1894
• The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1897-1908
• Journal of Freedom (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• The Sun (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1883-1885
• The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1842-1857
• Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1941-1946
• The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1872-1918
• Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1886
• The State Chronicle (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1883-1892
• The Daily Caucasian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1895
• The Gold Leaf (Henderson, N.C.) – 1882-1911
• The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.) – 1884-1913
• The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.) – 1879-1911
• The Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1836-1879
• Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) – 1932-1940
• Hillsboro Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1887-1888
• The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1935-1939
• The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1935-1962
• The Southern News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1938-1962
• Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1882-1889
• The Weekly Intelligencer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Educator (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1874-1875
• The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1930-1934
• Wilmington Journal (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1844-1876
• Cherokee Scout (Murphy, N.C.) – 1890-1917
• The Daily Confederate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1891-1898
• Our Living and Our Dead (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873-1874
• North Carolina Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
• Weekly Confederate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.) – 1903-1922
• The Journal of Industry (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
• North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1885
• The Skyland Post (West Jefferson, N.C.) – 1935-1947
• The Coastland Times (Manteo, N.C.) – 1951-1962
• The Burke County News (Morganton, N.C.) – 1899-1900
• The Fool-Killer (Boomer, N.C.) – 1910-1922
• Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1880-1916

This concludes the list of newspapers that we are sharing from the NDNP. 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 Tarborough Southerner, July 23, 1908.

Thanks to our partner, Edgecombe County Memorial Library, The Tarborough Southerner is now available on our website. This batch includes 47 issues, spanning from January 9, 1908 to December 24, 1908. Based in the center of Edgecombe County in Tarboro, North Carolina, The Tarborough Southerner  prided itself on providing stories covering politics, news, and literature while giving “especial attention to matters of the latest local and general interests.” 

The Tarborough Southerner, July 2, 1908.

The paper was first published under the name The Tarborough Southerner beginning in 1875, but has gone by several names since the paper’s first title, Free Press, in 1824. Following Free Press, the paper’s title has been: North-Carolina Free Press (1830-1832), N. Carolina Free Press (1832-1833), Tarborough Free Press (1833-1834), Tarboro Press (1835-1851), The Southerner (1852-1867), The Tarboro Southerner (1863-1874),  The Enquirer (1871), The Tarborough Southerner (1875-19??), and lastly in the early 1900s, Weekly Southerner (19??-19??). 

To learn more about the Edgecombe County Memorial Library, visit their website. 

To view all issues of The Tarborough Southerner, visit here.