State items: 131 years ago today!

Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, January 3, 1881

Came across this while poking around on Chronicling America, a Web site produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) that provides access to historic newspapers.

I was looking for stuff about Carversville, but the item about a ghost in Bethlehem is the real gem. Wow.

NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress whose mission is to develop a searchable database of Amiercan newspapers. Their collection consists of papers dating from 1836 through 1922 (so it's especially useful if you're looking for older information) and the images are wonderfully high resolution. Check it out.

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