Chronicling America web page updated

[Joe Bausch]

From the Library of Congress a couple of days ago:

On December 15, 2010, the Library of Congress added more than 440,000 historic newspaper pages to the Chronicling America Web site. This most recent update expands date coverage for many titles already represented in the site and includes a wealth of content in new titles from Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. The site now includes more than 3.1 million pages from 414 titles published between 1860 and 1922 in 22 states and the District of Columbia.

Good luck with your searching!  But remember:  anything you find that is not in agreement with a club's records means the newspaper article is wrong.  

The Chronicling America web page is here:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

[Buck Wolter]

That is quite a site.

Checking to see if linkiing a img of a pdf from here works -- edit -- Doesn't look like it but hopefully the persistent link will work if anyone wants to see the original.

Emmet talking about greens getting too big and therefore being too easy with the new livelier ball "easifying" the game and architects overspending by putting template holes on land not fitting for them.

'With an undulating tract of ground of 150 acres, with no woods on It and a few rocks, a good architect should be able to plan a first-class golf course on it which In normal times can be built for $30,000, not including thewater system.'


Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, October 18, 1917, Sports Extra, Image 15
Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA
Persistent link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1917-10-18/ed-1/seq-15/

[Joe Bausch]

That is quite the site, eh Buck? 

I have mined the EPL stuff pretty good.  I think we even discussed that article above many months ago.  But I can't guarantee I got every last article out of the EPL!   

[Mike Cirba]

It's a terrific site and as Joe mentioned, he's used it to grab some great stuff.   We were also able to find much, much more on Cobb's Creek, Seaview, and some other local courses where there was some prior confusion about attribution.

[Joe Bausch]

From the CA's RSS feed recently:

Last week, the Library of Congress updated the Chronicling America Web site with more than 230,000 additional newspaper pages in various titles. The site now provides access to more than 3.7 million searchable newspaper pages from 506 newspaper titles, published in 22 states and the District of Columbia between 1860 and 1922 .

Many of you know how nice of a site this is.  But one feature it really lacks (which the Fulton History site does possess) is a "search by date added" to the database.  I've used the feedback button a couple of times to request this extremely useful feature be added, but I'm still waiting... maybe more people from this site and can put in the same request?