Newspaperarchive.com

[George Thompson]

I don't have access to Newspaper Archive, but I find that neither the Proquest Historical Newspapers or the Readex America's Historical Newspapers are reliable, in that both too frequently fail to find item that are in fact in their files.  Frequently, I have had a story that has interested me, and I have searched for some distinctive word or some name in it, and whatever results I get do not include the story I started from.

GAT

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry A. Popik" <Bapopik at AOL.COM>
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:45 pm
Subject: Re: Newspaperarchive.com
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU


> Never heard about that.
> ...
> I was looking for "club sandwich" recently and couldn't find the 1894
> citation that I'd previously found. I went back the exact page and it
> was there,
> but in a search of 1880-1900 it WASN'T there.
> ...
> The Oakland Tribune was announced as "new content" three days ago, so
> I
> re-searched for "jazz." I couldn't find the same "jazz" citations we
> already  knew
> where there. If I changed the "jazz" search dates (from 1900-1914 to
> 1909-1914), I'd get completely different results over the same time  period.
> ...
> Oh, I got stories.
> ...
> --Barry Popik
>
>
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