[SamAdams76]

This annoys me too. We have all this technology. All this bandwidth and virtually unlimited digital storage at our disposal at very cheap rates. Google, Amazon, Apple and many others are building server farms that hold pentabytes of data.

Yet there is so much out there not online. Hundreds of years of newspapers and other data that are rotting away and may be lost forever if we do not digitalize it all now.

[Daffynition]

The papers want you & me to pay for the history by charging for *subscriptions*.

Don’t know if this will help you sam...
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/4324_find-old-newspaper-articles-and-archives-online-for-free