I always loved going to the library when I was younger and getting some good ol fashion microfiche.
I have found that google has a lot of articles from the late 1800's to today archived online. Some require a subscription to NYtimes, and others are free to view. I love reading old articles and old stories. Most is blah every day things, but even seeing some of the other stories of context is interesting. Sometimes the advertisements make me chuckle.
Catskills are full! 1907
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 5B878CF1D3
Story of a murderer in Catskill NY 1874
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dH ... %2C2214891
Guns drawn at the Peekamoose club over fishing 1896
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 5B8685F0D3
Two articles about Two murderers who are running from the cops to Fleischmann's, also a gambling-police bribery ring exposed.
1912
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xE ... %2C3015978
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B3 ... %2C4730380
Pre ashokan reservoir Article about NYC tapping Adirondaks or Catskills (they say catskills only has enough water to supply NYC for 20 years!) 1905
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 5B858CF1D3
NYT article about land purchases for NYC aquaduct. 1899
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 5B8985F0D3
NYT article about Aqaduct 1909
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 5B898CF1D3
Explosion kills 11 with 400 lbs of dynamite building the Aquaduct 1910
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 5B808DF1D3
Completion of the Great Hudson Aquaduct. ~1912
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HR ... 5%2C583280
Anyways just a cool way to look up some history if you got any keywords. Maybe searching for some of the old hamlet and town names from the late 1800's might bring up more results.
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Re: microfish ala Google
Really cool stuff, I'm going to try to read all of these articles! Either the NY Post or Daily News runs a vintage article every Sunday, usually an intriguing crime story. I always enjoy reading them, especially when they quote the original newspaper articles. It's great to see the English language evolve even from 100 years ago!
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yah when I see "to-day". Like it was two words, and we got lazy in the past 80 years or something.