Flipping Through the Funny Pages: Celebrating Ohio Cartoonists
Beyond the News, Business, and Sports sections of the daily newspaper you will find, my personal favorite, the funnies, or comics. Growing …
“Oh my gauze!” Pandemic in the news
“The germ will go through a city and even travel across the country from coast to coast, but it gets all mixed …
How Sweet It Is: The History of Sweetest Day
Although Sweetest Day is sometimes perceived as a second Valentine’s Day or a marketing gimmick to sell candy and greeting cards, this …
No Place Like Home
Have you ever noticed that we have a lot of houses on Ohio Memory? Like, a lot of houses. As of posting …
Weird Animals in Newspapers and How to Find Them
Is your favorite animal…weird? I had a teacher whose favorite animal was the okapi, which looks somewhat like a cross between a …
Narrowing Down Newspapers
Newspapers are kind of a slog to read through. You know it, and we do too. Let’s share a few search strategies …
“The Worthington News” Goes Digital
Nearly four decades of The Worthington News are fully scanned and searchable on Ohio Memory. Read on to learn a little more …
One-in-a-Million Pages
It’s official! Through Ohio Memory and the National Digital Newspaper Program, we’ve digitized 1 MILLION newspaper pages! Still, there are many more …
Tracing Title Changes in Ohio’s Historic Newspapers
Part of my job as the project coordinator for Ohio’s contribution to the National Digital Newspaper Program involves writing descriptions of a …
“Until Leap Year Gives It One Day More”: February 29th… Leap Day!
Tomorrow is February 29, 2020. As we all know from the Mother Goose rhyme in the title of this piece, February typically …
