Posted on 07/31/2016 11:06:58 AM PDT by NRx
A (mostly) daily posting for those interested in history and the day to day news, politics and culture of a bygone world; the full edition of the New York Tribune from today's date in 1896 (digitized).
(Excerpt) Read more at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov ...
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Wow holy cow! I didn’t know this was online! That’s incredible, and it goes back to 1866
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1866-04-10/ed-1/seq-1/
Who saved these papers?
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Way back in the day both the actual newspapers and public libraries would save full runs of their papers in cellars or storerooms as a sort of manual archive. Later with the development of microfilm most of the surviving papers were copied onto that medium. Special efforts were made to collect and microfilm the remaining papers and copies were sent to some deep mountain special storage. I am guessing this was to preserve records in the event someone pushed the button and blew up the world.
Now we are getting more and more old papers digitized and posted online. There is a separate run of the Tribune from 1842-1866 which can be found here...
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/issues/
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Every day it’s 15-20 killed by storms or flooding. I didn’t know global warming had been invented yet
And bus plunges, don’t forget the bus plunges.
It was unusual to find a yard or rail engineer who wasn't missing at least an eye or finger, and the loss of a leg or an arm was par for the course.
We stand and we ride on the shoulders of no small people.
Yeah, this was definitely pre-OSHA days. In the 1890’s it was estimated that one in every eleven steel workers would end up killed or maimed on the job. Don’t ask what they were paid. Even adjusting for inflation it makes me sick.
Happily though, the world had Dr. Andras Kilmer’s patent swamp root elixir to restore health and vigor to the sick and lame.
The election coverage from such a powerful Republican newspaper as the Tribune is going to be very interesting. Before there was Trump there was Bryan, although he has also been compared to McKinley who first campaigned in the 1870’s on economic nationalism and making tariffs a respectable topic and tactic.
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If anyone cares now, a great number of terrible train wrecks and collisions way back then were found to be basically caused by INACCURATE WATCHES OF THE DAY. If a train was to be on a siding to allow another to pass was late due to an inaccurate watch, they collided on the single track BOTH were using.
The U.S. government,reacting to the carnage commissioned a Mr. BALL to set the rigid standards to be the LAW regarding the accuracy of pocket watches carried by trainmen.
Thus was born the AMERICAN POCKET WATCH, and the American train system entered a new era of saftey
Hundreds of thousands of these watches run AS NEW to this very day, thousands over one hundred years old. As a watchmaker, I’m proud each time I’m sitting as I put the final adjustments on “legal” railroad watch. Yes, “LEGAL” because it was AGAINST the law for an everyday pocket watch to be carried by a trainman.
Most of what we see now....TEN years are uncommon.
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