{"id":1782,"date":"2016-03-23T01:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2024-02-11T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T15:10:00","slug":"delaware-research-alert-wilmingtons-morning-news-and-evening-journal-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/delaware-research-alert-wilmingtons-morning-news-and-evening-journal-available-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Research Alert &#8212; Wilmington\u2019s Morning News and Evening Journal Available Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Online full-text searchable newspapers from earlier times are quickly becoming the norm for researchers. Institutions such as the Library of Congress, Google, local heritage organizations, and commercial database providers are all rushing to unlock the past, making our work of digging into family or local history much more efficient. And each month brings exciting news about the release of another batch of digitized resources on the Net. Some are free, while others require a paid subscription.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Late this afternoon, I received an email from John Medkeff, Jr., the author of <a class=\"_2u0z\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brewingindelaware\/\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=746730795446373\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Brewing in Delaware<\/span><\/a>, with some exciting news about Delaware titles. Long historical runs of the Morning News and Evening Journal are now available on <a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2F&amp;h=AAQEe1pmo&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">www.newspapers.com<\/span><\/a> The Evening Journal spans a period ranging from 1888 to 1932, while the Morning News starts in 1800 and continue until 1965 (there are breaks). In addition, more recent runs of the News Journal are also available, from this subscription company.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">This is a major step forward as it helps open up access to Delaware stories as we are able to dig a lot deeper now. The material was accessible, but it required a trip to a major library to use the microfilm or access bound copies and searches took a long time.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Here\u2019s the link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Fbrowse%2F%23582%7C&amp;h=1AQExg5JW&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Wilmington newspapers.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Thanks John for this tip.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online full-text searchable newspapers from earlier times are quickly becoming the norm for researchers. Institutions such as the Library of Congress, Google, local heritage organizations, and commercial database providers are all rushing to unlock the past, making our work of digging into family or local history much more efficient. 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One-hundred-two years ago, public health and police officials in Wilmington had a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Prohibition&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Prohibition","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/category\/prohibition\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-24_23-38-55.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-24_23-38-55.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-24_23-38-55.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-24_23-38-55.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2318,"url":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wilmington-nurses-paid-a-heavy-price-fighting-the-pandemic-of-1918\/","url_meta":{"origin":1782,"position":5},"title":"Wilmington Nurses Paid a Heavy Price Fighting the Pandemic of 1918","author":"Mike","date":"April 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"When the Spanish Influenza hit Delaware in 1918, the surge devastated Wilmington and overwhelmed city hospitals. With sickness everywhere that October, doctors and ambulances could not keep up.\u00a0 Gongs rang continuously on the streets day and night as the emergency vehicles rushed the most critical cases to Homeopathic, Delaware, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delaware&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delaware","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/category\/delaware\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spanish-flu-wilmington-oct-3-1918-evening-journal.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spanish-flu-wilmington-oct-3-1918-evening-journal.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spanish-flu-wilmington-oct-3-1918-evening-journal.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spanish-flu-wilmington-oct-3-1918-evening-journal.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spanish-flu-wilmington-oct-3-1918-evening-journal.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}