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ANNALS OF CLEVELAND 1818 - 1935 A Digest and Index of the Newspaper Record of Events and Opinions 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822 Volumes II, III, IV, V Abstracted principally from the files of the Cleveland Leader by: J. Young W. Kenney Multigraphed by the Cleveland WPA Project 16823 Cleveland, Ohio 1937 Distributed by the Cleveland Public Library
In the ANNALS OF CLEVELAND, an attempt is made to answer a need long felt by scholars; that of preserving and making readily accessible the detailed record of a city's life and culture as contained in its newspapers. The Annals are to be set of at least one volume per year, covering the 1818 – 1935 and including an abstract of every newspaper story that had recorded a local event or expressed a local opinion. Abstracts are filed chronologically under subject headings alphabetically ordered. The abstracts thus arranges are numbered consecutively. A chronological index brings together by number all abstracts from the newspaper of a given date, and a proper names and subject heading index offers an additional check. The file of the Cleveland HERALD has been used in the preparation of these volumes. Volume II covers the HERALD file from its first number, issued Oct. 19, 1819, to the end of 1819. Volumes III, IV, and V, cover the years 1820, 1821, and 1822 respectively. In these years, the HERALD was edited by Z. Willes. The HERALD was the second newspaper to make its appearance in Cleveland. The first, the GAZETTE AND COMMERCIAL REGISTER, extending from July 28, 1818 to Mar. 7, 1820 is reproduced in volume I of the Newspaper Digest. Reference Line – L Dec. 5; ed:2/1 indicates that the article following this reference was an editorial taken from the LEADER of Dec. 5, page two, column one. An "adv" in the reference line indicates that the abstract was made from an advertisement. The number in parenthesis at the end of the abstract indicated the number of inches in the original newspaper article. Newspaper files used in abstracting were available through the courtesy of Mr. Wallace Cathcart, of Western Reserve Historical Society, Miss Linda Eastman, of the Cleveland Public Library, the Cleveland City Council, Mr. Louis Seltzer of the Cleveland PRESS, and Mr. Earle Martin of the Cleveland NEWS. Miss Marilla Freeman and MR. William Lippert of the Cleveland Public Library and the City Clerk's Office have been of great assistance.
(From Annals of Cleveland - 1818-1935, Volume II, III, IV, V (1819, 1820, 1821, 1822). Cleveland: Cleveland WPA. 1937.)
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