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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 7th, 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
Burlington
Charlotte
Durham
Graham
Greensboro
Highlands
Milton
Salem
Southport
Spencer
Statesville
Tarboro
Thomasville
Wadesboro
Waynesville
Wilson
Windsor
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 12th, 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
Greensboro
Hendersonville
Oxford
Rutherfordton
Salem
Salisbury
Southern Pines
Southport
Tarboro
Taylorsville
Warrenton
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
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
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.
We love being sent or just stumbling upon, projects on the web that utilize materials digitized through the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. We thought since they have done such a great job highlighting us, it’d only be fair to turn around and highlight a few we’ve found recently.
Today’s featured website is “Black Wide-Awake” which highlights “documents of historical and genealogical interest to researchers of Wilson County, North Carolina’s African American past.”
The site, written by Lisa Henderson and with posts dating back to 2015, utilizes a wide variety of digitized historical resources to document everything from African-American schools in the Wilson area, wills, correspondence, and newspaper articles related to the enslaved people in Wilson County, to official records including marriage, birth, and death records from the Black community.
Some of the DigitalNC resources that are featured on Black Wide-Awake include many of the photographs and other materials from the Oliver Nestus Freeman Round House Museum’s collection.
Shoe shine kit from the Oliver Nestus Freeman collection, featured in this post on Black Wide Awake.
Wilson City Directories
Photograph from the 1947-1948 Wilson City Directory, featured in this post on Black Wide Awake.
Yearbooks from Darden High School, made possible by our partner Wilson County Public Library
Senior page from the 1948 Charles H. Darden High School yearbook, the first yearbook from the school, featured in this post on the website.
Many newspaper article clippings from DigitalNC are also included. A post discussing the white supremacist views held and pushed by editor of the Wilson Advance, Josephus Daniels, is a recent post that connects directly to the current commentary going on regarding Black Lives Matter and reassessing how we look at our history.
Post on Black Wide Awake pointing out the racist statements the editor and publisher of the Wilson Advance, Josephus Daniels, made regularly in a call to take down any statue or other dedication marker to him in North Carolina.
The work done on this website is a fascinating look into how resources on DigitalNC can really help illuminate a North Carolina community’s past. Thanks for using us Ms. Henderson! We encourage anyone with an interest in genealogy and local history, particularly for the Black community in North Carolina, to visit the site.
If you have a particular project or know of one that has utilized materials from DigitalNC, we’d love to hear about it! Contact us via email or in the comments below and we’ll check out. To see past highlighted projects, visit past posts here.
Front page of the April 15, 1870 issue of Zion’s Landmarks
Fifty-five issues of Zion’s Landmarks, a Baptist newspaper published in Wilson, North Carolina, are now available online thanks to our partner institution, Wake Forest University. The issues, “devoted to the defense of the Primitive Baptists,” dates from 1869 to 1877. The paper primarily consist of letters to community elders and the paper’s editors, but also often include biblical narratives, such as “Ruth married to Boaz,” in the issue from October 15, 1871, or “David and Goliath,” in the issue from November 15, 1870, as well as announcements to the community of subscribers.
Other newspapers on DigitalNC from Wilson near that time period include The Wilson Advance (1874-1899) and The Wilson Blade (1897). To see more from Wake Forest University, you can visit their partner page here or visit their website for more information.
Part of The Wilson Advance header from the March 24, 1876 issue.
The Local Briefs section detailing happenings of the week as seen on the first page of the March 30, 1876 issue.
Two more issues of The Wilson Advance from March of 1876 are now up on DigitalNC, courtesy of our partner Wilson County Public Library. These issues join many previously digitized issues from 1874-1899 and give a glimpse into daily life in Wilson N.C. during the late 1800s. The Wilson advance was published every Friday, and included local and national news stories as well as obituaries, marriage announcements, events, and advertisements.
To view the new issues, click the links below:
To view more issues of The Wilson Advance on DigitalNC, click here. To see more materials from Wilson County Public Library, take a look at their partner page, or visit their website.
An advertisement for Leibig’s Liquid Extract of Beef from page 2 of the March 24, 1876 issue.
April Fool’s Day is upon us. (We thought Google Chrome’s support for emoji translation could be really useful for transcribing some of our newspapers!) These days it seems April Fool’s is mostly played out online, with websites jockeying for the best prank. Taking a look through DigitalNC’s Newspaper Collection shows that pulling pranks on April Fool’s via [print] media is nothing new.
The oldest reference found to April Fool’s Day in the newspapers is from The Wilson Advance in 1897, which reminded its readers which day it was and to be on the alert for pranksters. The small news item gives a glimpse of what April Fool’s jokes entailed in the late 1890s. (for context, $10 in 1897 would equal approximately $268 today)
Starting with the 1937 April Fool’s Day issue of the Clarion from Brevard College, which is the first appearance of an April Fool’s themed paper in NC Newspapers, it appears that special April Fool’s Day editions of student newspapers were popular across North Carolina, as they remain today if you browse through some campus newspapers online. Some of the funnier news headers we found included a color by number of Elon’s Pendlelum in 1999 and the 1991 Goofordian [regularly the Guilfordian] from Guilford College, which also noted that you can read all about the debate over the sweatiest professor on page 2.
To view more newspapers from across North Carolina, visit the North Carolina Newspapers collection and to view specifically more papers from April 1 through the years, check out the “Today in North Carolina History” section on the right side of the page.
The following newspapers were digitized from microfilm in 2011 and 2012.
Title |
Years |
Nominating Institution |
The Mebane Leader |
1911-1915 |
Alamance County Public Library |
Highland Messenger (Asheville) |
1840-1851 |
Buncombe County Public Library |
The Standard (Concord) |
1888-1898 |
Cabarrus County Public Library |
Daily Concord Standard |
1895-1899 |
Cabarrus County Public Library |
Mecklenburg Jeffersonian (Charlotte) |
1841-1849 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
Miners’ and Farmers’ Journal (Charlotte) |
1830-1834 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
Catawba Journal (Charlotte) |
1824-1828 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
Western Democrat (Charlotte) |
1856-1868 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
North Carolina Whig (Charlotte) |
1852-1863 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
Fayetteville Observer |
1851-1865 |
Cumberland County Public Library |
The Carolina Times (Durham) |
1951-1964 |
Durham County Library |
The Lincoln Republican (Lincolnton) |
1840-1842 |
Gaston County Public Library |
The Lincoln Courier (Lincolnton) |
1845-1895 |
Gaston County Public Library |
The Roanoke News (Weldon) |
1878-1922 |
Halifax County Public Library |
The Marion Progress |
1916, 1929, 1940 |
McDowell County Public Library |
Marion Record |
1894-1895 |
McDowell County Public Library |
Marion Messenger |
1896-1898 |
McDowell County Public Library |
The Pilot (Southern Pines) |
1920-1945 |
Southern Pines Public Library |
Sylvan Valley News |
1900-1911 |
Transylvania County Library |
The Pinehurst Outlook |
1897-1923 |
The Tufts Archives |
The Goldsboro Headlight |
1887-1903 |
Wayne County Public Library |
The Elm City Elevator |
1902 |
Wilson County Public Library |
The Wilson Advance |
1874-1899 |
Wilson County Public Library |