We have 21 new titles this week, including a couple from Petersburg, Virginia! In 1863, printer John William Syme relocated the Raleigh Register to Petersburg, Virginia. Production continued only until 1864, when the scarcity of supplies forced him to cease publication.

This week we also have one of the earliest advertisements for Pepsi buried on the last page of this issue of the New Bern Daily Journal. Created in a New Bern drug store in 1893, Pepsi was originally named “Brad’s Drink” after its creator and store owner, Caleb Bradham. In 1898 Bradham, changed the name to “Pepsi-Cola,” and in 1902 registered a trademark for the name. The first ad, misspelled as “Pesi-Cola,” is from August 8th, 1902 and the second, with the corrected name, is from August 31st, 1902.

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:

• Raleigh Daily Telegram (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
• The Daily Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1851
• Daily Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
• The Semi-Weekly Register (Petersburg, VA) – 1864
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1800-1825
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1825-1841
• The Weekly Register (Petersburg, VA) – 1863
• The Progressive Farmer and Southern Farm Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1917
• The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1917
• The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1916
• The Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1894
• The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881-1894
• The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1884-1888
• New Bern Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• Weekly Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
• Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1913-1915
• The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.) – 1916
• The Asheville News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1880-1883
• Daily Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1881-1888

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.

Thanks to our new partner Stanly Community College, we now have newspaper clippings about the school from the 1974-1975 academic year to 2021. Many of the articles describe the activities and accomplishments of the Stanly Community College chapter of Phi Beta Lambda (PBL), a professional organization for students studying business.

While several articles detail the impact that the SCC Phi Beta Lambda chapter had in the Albemarle community, a few connect the organization to a larger context. In 1981, for example, PBL students partnered with community leaders to hold a ceremony celebrating the safe return of United States citizens and diplomats after the Iran Hostage Crisis. The PBL president, vice president, historian, and treasurer were supported by Albemarle Mayor Carlton B. Holt and Tony Lowder, chairman of the Stanly County Board of Commissioners, along with several church leaders.

Most of the newspaper clippings come from The Stanly News & Press, a local paper of Stanly County.

To learn more about Stanly Community College, please visit their website.

The full Stanly Community College collection can be found here. To see more newspapers from around North Carolina, please click here.

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.

Front Page of “The Pilot” newspaper from Southern Pines, NC, dated August 7th, 1968

Thanks to our partner, Southern Pines Public Library, Digital NC now has available new additions of the local newspaper “The Pilot” ranging in the years 1956 to 1968. A local staple in the community, “The Pilot” covers news stories in Southern Pines and the surrounding areas of Moore County. Still active today, “The Pilot is published twice a week.

To see more of the newspaper collection for “The Pilot”, visit here. To view the collection from our partner, Southern Pines Public Library, visit here.

You can also check out our wide selection of newspapers throughout North Carolina by visiting our North Carolina Newspaper Collection.

This week we have 48 titles up on DigitalNC! One of the newspapers added this week is The Holden Record. The short-lived Raleigh publication, solely dedicated to discrediting gubernatorial candidate W.W. Holden, was created by abolitionist and Raleigh Register co-publisher H.H. Helper. Holden went on to be elected governor, even though the paper painted him as a violent man and blamed him for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Holden took an anti-Klan stance and this tension led to the Kirk-Holden War. He served until 1871, was impeached, and charged on eight counts for alleged crimes committed during this time. While the impeachment was politically motivated due to his suppression of the Klan, he is still the only North Carolina governor to have been impeached.

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 are the following:

• North Carolina Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• The Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867-1871
• The North Carolina Minerva and Fayetteville Advertiser (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1796-1799
• The North-Carolina Minerva and Raleigh Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1799-1800
• The North-Carolina Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1800-1803
• Minerva; or Anti-Jacobin (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1803-1804
• The Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1804-1809
• Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1823-1848
• The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1848-1868
• The Weekly Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867
• The Holden Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
• North-Carolina Constitutionalist and States Rights’ Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1831
• The Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874-1876
• The Carolina Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
• Tri-Weekly Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
• The Weekly Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1874
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1901-1908
• The Raleigh News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
• The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1912
• The Weekly Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1841-1852
• The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1868
• The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868-1886
• The Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1863
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1823-1825
• The Daily North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1833-1834
• Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1848-1852
• Raleigh Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1867-1874
• We Know (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872
• Daily Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
• The Semi-Weekly Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• The Daily Record (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• City and State (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1878
• The National (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1878
• The Evening Crescent (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
• Daily Evening Crescent (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
• The Whig Clarion (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1843-1844
• The Weekly News (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869-1870
• The Hornets’ Nest (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1849-1850
• The Southern Mechanic (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1876                                          
• The Ballot (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1886
• Purefoy’s Express (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1877
• The Journal-Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1883
• The Daily Carolina Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869
• The Daily Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869
• Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1863-1870
• Newbern Weekly Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1866
• North Carolina Guardian (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1867

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.

Thanks to our newest partner, Person County Museum of History, four new issues of The Roxboro Courier are now available on our website. This batch expands our current holdings of the newspaper to cover from 1919 to 1946. Many of the articles in this batch relate to the aftermath of World War I and President Woodrow Wilson’s negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference.

One of the issues features an article on the creation of “grenade banks.” Hand grenades manufactured in the United States for World War I were being taken and repurposed (after the careful removal of the explosives) into miniature saving banks. The saving banks were then lent to children by community banks as a way to fundraise through War Saving Stamps. After saving for a certain period of time, the children would bring their money-filled grenades to the bank to be counted. If the child had enough money to buy a War Savings Stamp, the grenade would belong to the child. If there was not enough money for the War Savings Stamp, the money had to be invested into Thrift Stamps and the child would have to try to save enough money to keep the grenade bank during the next cycle. To view a picture of a grenade bank or to read the entire article, please click here.

June 11, 1919.

The Person County Museum of History is located in Roxboro, North Carolina in the home of former North Carolina governor W. W. Kitchin. The museum has several interesting exhibits related to Person County history which discuss topics such as Sappony heritage and baseball legend Enos Slaughter. The site also features seven other historic buildings which can also be toured. Currently, the museum is temporarily closed for exhibit renovations and inventory but plans to be opened again soon.

To learn more about the Person County Museum of History, please visit their website.

To view more issues of The Roxboro Courier, please click here.

To view more newspapers from across North Carolina, please click here.