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Find old stories at the New York Times like a report on Custer's Last Stand

Sep 19, 2007 kottke.org posting :

Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to.

When I created the Jon Hendricks page earlier this week, I was able to find a NY Times story about Hendricks from 1984, thanks to the Times removing its wall to old articles.

Here are a few old stories mentioned in the kottke.org posting that you can read at the NY Times. The real old stories contain some text on a Web page, but then you read the entire article via a PDF file. Scanned images.

April 15, 1865 - Lincoln Assassination

President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin.; The Deed Done at Ford's Theatre Last Night. THE ACT OF A DESPERATE REBEL The President Still Alive at Last Accounts. No Hopes Entertained of His Recovery. Attempted Assassination of Secretary Seward. DETAILS OF THE DREADFUL TRAGEDY.

July 7, 1876 - Custer's Last Stand

CONFIRMATION OF THE DISASTER.; DISPATCHES FROM GEN. TERRY RECEIVED AT SHERIDAN'S HEAD-QUARTERS-- THEORIES OF THE BATTLE--PROBABLY TEN THOUSAND SIOUX IN POSITION-- THE ATTACK CONDEMNED AS RASH BY OFFICERS OF EXPERIENCE--DISPOSITION OF THE WOUNDED.

CHICAGO, July 6.--At the head-quarters of Lieut. Gen. Sheridan this morning, all was bustle and confusion over the reported massacre of Custer's command. Telegrams were being constantly received, but most of them were of a confidential nature and withheld from publication. It is known that the unfortunate command broke camp on...

Custer dropped squarely into the midst of no less than ten thousand red devils and was literally torn to pieces.

September 10, 1872 - The Hostile Savages

THE HOSTILE SAVAGES.; Seven Mexicans Murdered by Apaches in Arizona. Corporal Black's Body Found Lacerated from Head to Foot.The Militia Called Out by Gov.Safford.Severe Battle Reported with Indiansin the Yellowstone Valley.Attack on Members of the Northern Pacific Railway Survey.THE INDIANS.Attack on Major Baker's Force in the Yellowstone Valley Forty Soldiers Killed and Wounded Sitting Bull Threatens to Give Gen. Stanley"Plenty of Fight." Fresh Slaughters in Arizona Corporal Black's Body Found Evidence of Torture. The Situation in Utah. Attacks on Members of the Northern Pacific Surveying Expedition.

November 9, 1919 - Confirmation of Einstein's theory of gravity

ECLIPSE SHOWED GRAVITY VARIATION; Diversion of Light Rays Accepted as Affecting Newton's Principles.HAILED AS EPOCHMAKING British Scientist Calls the Discovery One of the Greatest ofHuman Achievements.

LONDON, Nov. 8.--What Sir Joseph Thomson, President of the Royal Society, declared was "one of the greatest --perhaps the greatest--of achievements in the history of human thought" was discussed at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical So-...

April 15, 1912 - Early report of Titanic in trouble

LATEST NEWS FROM THE SINKING SHIP

CAPE RACE, N.F., Sunday night, April 14. -- At 10:25 o'clock to-night the White Star line steamship Titanic called "C.Q.D." to the Marconic wireless station here, and reported having struck an iceberg. The steamer said that immediate assistance was required.

February 24, 1907 - The first mention of television (as a concept) in the Times

September 8, 1917 - A report during the First World War of the Germans using mustard gas


December 8, 1993 - Article about the Mosaic Web browser

A new software program available free to companies and individuals is helping even novice computer users find their way around the global Internet, the network of networks that is rich in information but can be baffling to navigate.

Since its introduction earlier this year, the program, called Mosaic, has grown so popular that its use is causing data traffic jams on the Internet. That worries some computer scientists. But Mosaic's many passionate proponents hail it as the first "killer app" of network computing -- an applications program so different and so obviously useful that it can create a new industry from scratch.

So sudden and dramatic has been Mosaic's success in attracting commercial software developers that the program may play a decisive role in determining the shape of the national "information infrastructure" now being debated by Government officials and telecommunications and computer executives.


But kottke also points out that a lot is missing from the NY Times archive.

Not a lot is available from the WWII era, which is a shame. Nothing about the moon landing, Kennedy's assassination, Watergate, etc. etc. either. :(

Strange. Maybe it will all be out there some day.

created by jr on Sep 20, 2007 at 08:27:06 am
updated by jr on Sep 20, 2007 at 08:29:47 am     Comments: 4

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It will be interesting when people go through and find factual inaccuracies or wanton bias and prejudices of the time.

posted by charlatan on Sep 20, 2007 at 02:45:17 pm     #



Heh.

Good NYT article on the immigration menace threatening the sovereignty of the United States.

No, not the current "menace." This article is dated 16 July 1883, and concerns the hordes of immigrant "undesirables" - especially the Chinese and the opium with which they would destroy the United States.

Of course, the "immigrant invasion" we face from Mexico today is so much deadlier that our previous intruders, such as the Italians, Poles, Irish, Chinese, right?

(sarcasm alert)

posted by historymike on Sep 20, 2007 at 08:26:20 pm     #



Earlier today, I found some kind of Toledo political story at the NY Times that originated from the Toledo Journal.

December 13, 1876 :

DESPERATION OF THE TILDENITES.; ORGANIZATION OF MINUTE MEN IN TOLEDO HOW THE CONCERT OF ACTION IS TO BE BROUGHT ABOUT.

We are prepared to say that since the night of Nov. 10, three days following the election, the Democratic managers in Toledo have received at least three important and confidential circulars from the National Democratic Headquarters. How many more than three we are not able to say. No. 1 called attention to the importance of not permitting the campaign organization to be dismissed.

No. 2 was issued before the close of election week, and among other things warns the party managers that "we have knowledge of a determined purpose to count out Samuel J. Tilden" ...

This circular calls upon the leaders to immediately take steps to organize the Democratic voters into efficient working and active clubs, and even proposes the names to be borne by such organizations ...

posted by jr on Sep 20, 2007 at 09:57:55 pm     #



actually HM, many would say it's not the immigrants - just the illegal ones. :)

jr - great article...the Dem party roots in Toledo - wonder if they've got this as party of their history records.

posted by MaggieThurber on Sep 21, 2007 at 02:40:25 pm     #