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Use the tools located to the right of your search results page to refine your keyword(s) or narrow your results to a specific location or date.
Use the Save this Search link to save your search for later use. Your search will be saved in "my filing cabinet" where you can periodically revisit the search to check for results from newly added content.
You can save newspaper pages to your filing cabinet by simply checking the box next to each search result you would like to save and clicking the "Save Selected Results" link.
Each search result begins with the title of the paper. Clicking on the title will allow you to view the full size newspaper page in PDF format.
Each search result contains an excerpt of the text found on the page surrounding your keyword(s). Your keyword(s) will be highlighted within the excerpt.
The date found below each result is the original publish date of the newspaper page containing your result. Clicking on this link will narrow your search to newspapers from that date.
The City and State links found below each result indicate the newspaper’s publication location. Clicking on these links will narrow your results to that specific location.
To page through search results use the navigation found at the top and bottom of the search results page. This allows you to navigate through results one page at a time or jump to a page of results.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. Lord Acton
History is not history unless it is the truth. Abraham Lincoln
Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.
A country without a memory is a country of madmen. George Santayana
The Can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the can.
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. Edmund Burke
To order an over-sized reproduction print of any page in the archive, simply click on the "add to my cart" icon when viewing a newspaper page.
Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward. Søren Kierkegaard
The past is always a rebuke to the present. Robert Penn Warren
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. Adrienne Rich