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[George Thompson]

For you digitized newspaper databse hounds:

Mark Aubrey posted the following message (extracted) to the 19C baseball
listserv:

"The Northern New York Library Network has digitized quite a number of
newspapers from the following counties:
Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence.
They can be accessed at URL: http://news.nnyln.net/

The papers and their dates are:

* Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post, 1917-1971
* Akwesasne Indian Time, 1982-2002
* Canton Commercial Advertiser, 1900-1952
* Chateaugay Journal & Chateaugay Record, 1881-1951
* Elizabethtown Post, 1882-1920
* Fort Covington Sun, 1887-1987
* Fulton Patriot, 1916-1954
* Lake Placid News, 1914-1951
* Lowville Journal & Republican, 1860-1940
* Malone Farmer, 1900-1936
* Malone Franklin Gazette, 1842-1899
* Plattsburgh Republican, 1811-1820
* Plattsburgh Sentinel, 1866-1931
* Potsdam Herald-Recorder, 1906-1951
* Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald, 1897-1904
* St. Regis Falls Adirondack News, 1887-1933
* Saranac Lake Adirondack Daily Enterprise, 1948-1976
* Ticonderoga Sentinel, 1874-1950
* Watertown Herald, 1886-1918

They are (semi) searchable.  The OCR is rough, but workable.  The
images are 11"x17" pdf files, about 1MB each."

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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