Massachusetts Newspaper
Mammals List of Massachusetts
Thompson, E.H. 1884. Worcester county mammals. Worcester Daily Spy, 6 May, page 6. [As of 1980, this newspaper had not been microfilmed and the bound set, very fragile, in the Worcester Public Library may be the only source for this reference] ... [Read More]
KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald - Biographical Information
(brother of Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, grandson of John Francis Fitzgerald, and uncle of Joseph Patrick Kennedy II and Patrick J. Kennedy), a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts and 35th President of the United States; born in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., May 29, 1917; attended the public and private schools of Brookline, Mass., Choate School, Wallingford, Conn., the London School of Economics at London, England, and Princeton University; graduated from Harvard University in 1940; attended Stanford University School of Business; during the Second World War served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy 1941-1945; PT boat commander in the South Pacific; author and newspaper correspondent; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1953); did not seek renomination in 1952; elected to the United States Senate in 1952; reelected in 1958 and served from January 3, 1953 to December 22, 1960, ... [Read More]
United States Newspaper Program
Also, the Illinois State Historical Library, Newspaper Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, IL 62701-1507, telephone: 217-785-7956, cooperates with the Illinois Newspaper Project and preserves originals and microfilm of many Illinois newspapers. ... The USNP has supported projects in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each project is conducted by a single organization within a state or territory, usually the state's largest newspaper repository. A project's staff inventories holdings in public libraries, county courthouses, newspaper offices, historical museums, college and university libraries, archives, and historical societies. Catalog records are entered into a national database maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and accessible through more than 43,500 dedicated computer terminals worldwide. Microfilm copies of newspapers are generally available to researchers anywhere in the country through inter-library loan. ... [Read More]
Massachusetts FACE Report No. 94MA008
On November 30, 1993, the MA FACE Program learned of the death of a 14 year old newspaper boy from an article in a metropolitan newspaper. An investigation was initiated during the first week of January, 1994. The MA FACE Project Director obtained a copy of the police report, and met with the employer on January 12. During the course of the investigation, the Project Director collected a copy of the company's orientation and training packet, news stories on the boy, and the death certificate. The Director interviewed several carrier families and spoke with the legal counsel for the victim's family. The employer was a large, daily, suburban newspaper, with more than 3,400 employees and independent contractors; roughly 3,000 of these were news carriers. Carriers were hired as independent contractors under the "Little Merchant System." Instead of work permits, the company obtained a signed agreement, or "Letter of Understanding," from the child and the child's parents ... [Read More]
The State Library of Massachusetts - Services - Databases and Other Electronic Resources
Newsbank's America's Newspapers provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 local, regional and national U.S. newspapers. ... NewspaperSource for full-text newspaper articles, and TopicSearch for current social, political and economic issues. ... Full-Text articles from the Boston Globe are available on a dedicated computer in the Periodicals area (4th Floor). (Remote access not available -- The Boston Globe is available remotely through Proquest and Newsbank Newspaper Databases with a proper library card). ... [Read More]
The State Library of Massachusetts - Site Map
Current newspapers - Printable version ... Historical newspaper collection ... Online newspapers - Printable version ... [Read More]
Massachusetts FACE Report No. 94MA016
On May 6, 1994 the MA FACE Program learned from an article in a metropolitan newspaper that a 12 year old news carrier had been killed the previous day in a motor vehicle collision. An investigation was immediately initiated. The MA FACE Project Director and the MA Department of Public Health's Teen Injury at Work Surveillance Project Manager met with the employer on May 18. The incident scene was visited and the investigating police officer and the customer to whom the victim made her last delivery were also interviewed. Copies of the police report, the company's safety materials, news stories on the girl, the fire department report, and the death certificate were collected during the course of the investigation. The employer was a family-run, daily, suburban newspaper, serving one Massachusetts community. The paper was a subsidiary of a larger newspaper serving 5 communities. The newspaper was started as a weekly edition in 1870, and in 1981 it became a daily paper. The company empl ... [Read More]
U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress
The researcher using this list is cautioned that not all newspapertitles held by the Library of Congress are indexed; however, earlyU.S. newspapers often covered areas much larger than just thetowns where they were published. The user is further cautioned that few indexes are complete, and many errors and omissions can beexpected. ... U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress Home Page ... The format of the entry follows that of the Library's printed catalogcard including the classification number and an indication of the holdingsin the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. ... [Read More]
The State Library of Massachusetts - Newspapers and Periodicals
The library does not subscribe to all of these newspapers.For current holdings, please check current newspapers .Direct questions concerning newspapers to the periodicals desk at 617.727.2594. ... While the library cannot subscribe to all Massachusetts newspapers, many are available online. The library staff has compiled a list of these for your convenience. ... The library has access to two databases that provide full-text searching and retrieval of newspaper articles. Note that these are not complete versions of the paper. Photographs, graphs and advertisements, as well as some articles may not be available through these services: ... [Read More]
Newspaper Indexes/Archives/Morgues - Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress)
Lathrop Report on Newspaper Indexes : an illustrated guide to published and unpublished newspaper indexes in the United States & Canada / compiled and edited by Norman M. Lathrop, Mary Lou Lathrop. 1979-1980 ed. Wooster, Ohio : Norman Lathrop Enterprises, c1979- 1 v. (loose-leaf) ; 30 cm. CALL NUMBER: Z6293.L37 1979 ... Oregon Index (newspaper & magazine articles about Oregon) ... Newspaper Indexes (usually older, local, sometimes specialized): ... [Read More]
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