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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
Asheville
Belhaven
Brevard
Charlotte
Cherryville
Clayton
Concord
Cooleemee
Creedmoor
Durham
East Bend
Elizabeth City
Forest City
Gastonia
Goldsboro
Greenville
Kenly
Leaksville
Lenoir
Lincolnton
Lumberton
Mocksville
Mooresville
Moravian Falls
New Bern
Raleigh
Red Springs
Reidsville
Rocky Mount
Rutherfordton
Salisbury
Selma
Shelby
Smithfield
Spruce Pines & Burnsville
Statesville
Taylorsville
Washington
Waynesville
Wilmington
Windsor
Winston-Salem
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
Charleston
Charlotte
Culler
Elizabeth City
Goldsboro
Greensboro
Halifax
Hertford
North Wilkesboro
Oxford
Plymouth
Raleigh
Red Springs
Reidsville
Rockingham
Rutherfordton
Salisbury
Sanford
Shelby
Tarboro
Taylorsville
Wadesboro
Warrenton
Washington
Winston-Salem
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 34 titles up on DigitalNC! In this batch we have an article from the Durham Tobacco Plant describing the construction of a new factory being built by W. Duke, Sons & Co., which contained a machine that would revolutionize their tobacco business: The Bonsack machine.
Durham Tobacco Plant, July 16, 1884
In 1881, Virginia native James Bonsack created the first industrial cigarette rolling machine, a task that was done meticulously by hand up until this point. Bonsack partnered with W. Duke, Sons & Co. in 1884 and supplied them with one of his machines that could roll 250,000 cigarettes in a single day, the equivalent of 48 employees. While this acquisition would make the Dukes the leading cigarette producer in the country, the automation of the process forced many skilled rollers out of work.
W. Duke, Sons & Co. 1884 factory. Image via opendurham.org
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 North Carolinian (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1869-1903
- The Yadkin Valley News (Mt. Airy, N.C.) – 1880-1895
- The Index (Wilkesboro, N.C.) – 1880-1881
- The News Reporter (Whiteville, N.C.) – 1912-1924
- The Montgomery Vidette (Troy, N.C.) – 1886-1891
- The Southern Vidette (Norwood, N.C.) – 1891-1892
- Carter’s Weekly (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) – 1920-1922
- The Alexander County Journal (Taylorsville, N.C.) – 1887-1888
- Washington Progress (Washington, N.C.) – 1892-1913
- The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.) – 1890-1911
- The Wilson Mirror (Wilson, N.C.) – 1887-1894
- Windsor Public Ledger (Windsor, N.C.) – 1887-1889
- Windsor Ledger (Windsor, N.C.) – 1889-1915
- The Daily Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1889-1922
- The Carolina Mountaineer and Waynesville Courier (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1917-1923
- Raleigh Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1914
- The Elizabeth-City Star (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1822-1824
- The Elizabeth-City Star and North-Carolina Eastern Intelligencer (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1825-1833
- The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1839-1864
- The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1888
- Durham Tobacco Plant (Durham, N.C.) – 1872-1885
- The Enquirer (Tarboro, N.C.) – 1871-1873
- The Times (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1856-1861
- Halifax Compiler (Halifax, N.C.) – 1818
- Halifax Minerva (Halifax, N.C.) – 1829-1830
- The Edenton Gazette, and North-Carolina Advertiser (Edenton, N.C.) – 1806-1809
- The Edenton Gazette (Edenton, N.C.) – 1809-1813
- The Edenton Gazette, and North-Carolina General Advertiser (Edenton, N.C.) – 1814-1822
- Edenton Gazette (Edenton, N.C.) – 1827-1831
- The N.C. Republican, and Civil Rights Advocate (Weldon, N.C.) – 1884
- The Weldon Patriot (Weldon, N.C.) – 1852-1859
- Railroad Ticket (Weldon, N.C.) – 1881
- The Semi-Weekly State (Weldon, N.C.) – 1867
- Webster’s Weekly (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1881-1916
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 38 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC! In this batch, we have issues spanning 33 years from Oxford, N.C. paper Oxford Public Ledger. In addition to being the county seat for Granville County, Oxford is also home to the first female parachutist and inventor of the ripcord: Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick.
Georgia was born April 8, 1893 and weighed only three pounds at birth, earning her the nickname “Tiny.” She was married at age 12, had a child at 13, and was widowed before she was 15. In 1907, her life changed forever when she saw The Broadwicks and their Famous French Aeronauts perform aerial stunts at the North Carolina State Fair. She left home, joined the Broadwicks travelling show, and was legally adopted by the show owner, Charles Broadwick, making her “Tiny” Broadwick.
Georgia ‘Tiny’ Broadwick, 1911. Via Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
In an exhibition in Chicago the week of September 16, 1912, Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from a plane. In 1914, jumped into Lake Michigan, making her the first woman to parachute into a body of water. Also in 1914, she debuted the ripcord in a parachuting demonstration for the U.S. Army, performing the first planned free-fall jump from an airplane. By the end of her career she is said to have performed over 1,100 jumps.
Wilmington Star, January 10, 1914
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:
- Toisnot Transcript (Toisnot, N.C.) – 1876
- Rocky Mount Progress (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1880
- The Warsaw Brief Mention (Warsaw, N.C.) – 1880
- The Albemarle Observer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1914-1915
- The Messenger (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1887-1888
- The Times-Herald (Littleton, N.C.) – 1906-1909
- The Maxton Union (Maxton, N.C.) – 1889-1891
- Waynesville Courier (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1888-1911
- The Waynesville News (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1888
- Siler City Leader (Siler City, N.C.) – 1892
- The Troy Times (Troy, N.C.) – 1888
- The Daily News (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1886
- The Farmer’s Friend (Morganton, N.C.) – 1898
- The Norlina Headlight (Norlina, N.C.) – 1914-1924
- The Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.) – 1889-1901
- Oxford Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.) – 1901-1911
- Public Ledger and Oxford Banner (Oxford, N.C.) – 1912-1913
- Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.) – 1913-1919
- Oxford Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.) – 1919-1922
- The Tri-Weekly Examiner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1869-1872
- The Weekly Examiner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1871-1872
- The Salisbury Examiner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1881-1883
- The Great Sunny South (Snow Hill, N.C.) – 1898
- The Stovall Courier (Stovall, N.C.) – 1898
- The People’s Paper (Warren Plains, N.C.) – 1895-1896
- Washington Weekly Progress (Washington, N.C.) – 1887-1888
- Washington Progress (Washington, N.C.) – 1888-1891
- The Roxboro Herald (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1881
- The Person County News (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1882-1883
- Person County Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1893-1896
- The Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1896-1910
- The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) – 1911-1917
- The Argonaut (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1894
- The Selma News (Selma, N.C.) – 1887
- The Messenger (Siler City, N.C.) – 1898-1900
- The Woman’s Right (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1874
- The Sunny Home (Toisnot, N.C.) – 1881-1883
- The People’s Press (Salem, N.C.) – 1851-1892
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.
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