Any long time reader of the Providence Journal
-interested in local history or just haunted by spirits of the
long-past- would surely appreciate a fully digitized Providence Journal
archive. I recall your series on the Lizzie Borden murder-mystery. Did
you use tedious microfilm searches for that ? As a Library of
Congress project there are now many digitized American newspapers (
1836-1923) . In one of these old digitized newspapers I read a rather
sultry story of an adulterous Rhode Island governor and his high society
mistress. For the rich and famous perhaps a readily available local
newspaper archive might expose too many still smoldering scandals.
When I was just a kid I recall reading about my Uncle Nick assigned to
the propaganda office of the United States Embassy in Rome - back then
Uncle Nick was a professional anti-communist ( also a former Providence
Journal editor ) . But all this was during the Kennedy Era.
And just yesterday I viewed an eerie page turning of
three old newspapers - and showing their age- on You Tube: the very
three days in November 1963 following the Kennedy assassination. The
story is very well known. But Thanksgiving was approaching and there
were amusing ads telling the reader the price of a pound of turkey -
about 40 cents.
Does anybody at 75 Fountain St. share my interest in a fully digitized Providence Journal ?
( I also believe that H.P. Lovecraft once sent a letter to the Providence Journal advocating for some form of socialism.
It was a Great Depression Year and the famous horror writer was living on Campbell's Soup . )
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