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A Reliable Remedy–Medicinal Ads from Old Newspapers Newspapers

A Reliable Remedy–Medicinal Ads from Old Newspapers

Television and copy advertisements for prescription drugs are a common sight these days. But the obsession with finding the latest and greatest cure-all is nothing…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingJuly 5, 2012
July 4th Contest Decided in Local Court Archives

July 4th Contest Decided in Local Court

The chancery causes we encounter usually involve disputes over lands, estates, and businesses, but occasionally we stumble upon cases that can only be categorized as…
Bari Helms
Bari HelmsJune 27, 2012
100 Years Ago Today: Chaos at the Republican Convention Newspapers

100 Years Ago Today: Chaos at the Republican Convention

The ascension of Mitt Romney, though drawn out, is boring by comparison to the Republican Convention of 1912. The June 21, 1912 issue of the The Times Dispatch devoted…
Silver Persinger
Silver PersingerJune 21, 2012
I Scream, You Scream, We All Steal Ice Cream! Archives

I Scream, You Scream, We All Steal Ice Cream!

On the afternoon of 18 April 1924, an Imperial Ice Cream Company truck got stuck in the mud on the road between Winchester and Front…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanJune 20, 2012
The Big Stone Post Newspapers

The Big Stone Post

The setting for John Fox Jr.’s 1908 novel Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Big Stone Gap in Wise County is situated along the Powell River…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingJune 18, 2012
Augusta Co. Chancery Reveals Pioneer Stories of Western Virginia ArchivesDigital Projects

Augusta Co. Chancery Reveals Pioneer Stories of Western Virginia

These words were written by a young lawyer who was researching court records filed in the Augusta County courthouse in the early 1830’s. He was…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordJune 18, 2012
Newspaper Discovery Sends Shock Waves Through Subgenius Community Newspapers

Newspaper Discovery Sends Shock Waves Through Subgenius Community

Sometimes while I’m preparing newspapers for microfilming, I come across interesting images, often I’ll take a photo on my phone and upload it to Facebook…
Silver Persinger
Silver PersingerJune 13, 2012
This is the house that Jack built Manuscripts & Special Collections

This is the house that Jack built

Another presidential election year is upon us, and we are already bombarded with television ads touting the two candidates and proclaiming their positions on every…
Trenton Hizer
Trenton HizerJune 13, 2012
Metro Virginia News/The Public Pamphlet Two Papers/Two Dynamos Newspapers

Metro Virginia News/The Public Pamphlet Two Papers/Two Dynamos

An earlier posting promised some additional remarks about a pair of recent arrivals to the LVA/VNP microfilm collection:  the Metro Virginia News and the Public Pamphlet of Leesburg,…
Henry Morse
Henry MorseJune 8, 2012
"…we all have tiers in our eyes and our hearts are in the pit of our stomacks" Manuscripts & Special Collections

"…we all have tiers in our eyes and our hearts are in the pit of our stomacks"

It is rare for anyone to be directly involved in an event that can be labeled, without exaggeration, a turning point in world history.  The…
Jessica Tyree Burgess
Jessica Tyree BurgessJune 6, 2012
How much was that? continued… Newspapers

How much was that? continued…

Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingJune 1, 2012
We Are Not Hoarders! ArchivesConservation

We Are Not Hoarders!

In the early 1980s, Mary Helen Gravitt went looking for a coffin. Gravitt, then a secretary at Virgilina Elementary School, was looking for a Halloween…
Bari Helms
Bari HelmsJune 1, 2012
How much was that? Newspapers

How much was that?

Advertisements are from the Blue Ridge Herald (Purcellville, Virginia) of January 6, 1955. Tune in tomorrow for more…….
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingMay 31, 2012
Freedmen’s Bureau in the Local Courts Archives

Freedmen’s Bureau in the Local Courts

In the years following the Civil War, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (commonly referred to as simply the Freedmen’s Bureau) provided assistance…
Bari Helms
Bari HelmsMay 30, 2012
Using Chronicling America Newspapers

Using Chronicling America

Check out this series of video podcasts to learn how to use Chronicling America. Big thanks to the Ohio Historical Society for creating these helpful…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingMay 23, 2012
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