While putting on old news articles from 1858, I ran across

[shraby]

this gem. :rofl: :rofl:

There are but two prisoners in our county jail at this time, one of whom,
was sent here from Kewaunee County. There may be other persons who ought
to go there but considering the temptation to steal which the hard times
place before our citizens we think that this is doing pretty well for
Manitowoc. We have all kinds of people here, representing the different
national characteristics, and these elements necessarily become discordant,
but a straightforward administration of our village affairs is restoring
order out of chaos, and establishing a system of mutual forbearance.
The Daily Tribune, Manitowoc, Wis. Wednesday, June 2, 1858 P. 3

They just don't write the news today like they used to.

[hlthe2b]

1. "while putting on old news articles"...... what does that mean...

:shrug: Your expression seems as unusual to me as the article...

[shraby]

3. I have a genealogy website for this area and put all I can find

online for researchers..old news, births, deaths, marriages, photos, military, ships built and sunk in Lake Mich., etc. It's a huge site and very useful for people constructing family trees. You name it, I have it..Don't quite know where I'm going to put this one yet but it needs to be on there.

I try to concentrate on pre-1910 info and do not put living people on the site.

[hlthe2b]

5. Interesting... thanks.

You must be very popular for those historians and others looking for this.

[csziggy]

12. Anything around Escanaba?

That is where my relatives settled in the 1870s. A few lived in Iron River, but they moved to Escanaba eventually.

[shraby]

13. Try this site:

<http://www.usgenweb.org> Find your state on the left of the page, then the county and see what they have for that county.

[Wickerman]

2. I love it

I too read a lot of old news for my job and run across some real gems. One thing I've noticed is that way into the 40's the description of violence was really graphic. When a car accident claimed lives they told how people died and the condition of the bodies. Suicides were named as such and again, the details were not left out.

Scary stuff, but things were called as they were, or, at least, as the writer saw them.

[shraby]

4. They did that earlier also. When putting on obits., I've noticed

trends too. Very early- 1850s, were mostly just a notice that someone died..then they started adding surviving family members. In the 1915-1920 time period they added all the people from out of town who attended the funerals, and in 1910-15 period, they put in who did the singing of hymns. Now in present ones they name surviving children and their spouses, grandchildren, even the doctors who took care of the deceased person...all of which I have to delete.

[enlightenment]

9. I don't understand why you have to delete the information, shraby.

Today, obits are submitted by family to newspapers and/or websites - they aren't simply written by newspapers unless the deceased was a public figure of some sort. As such, the information submitted was 'approved for publication' by the family, and public information.

I'm not talking off the top of my head - I'm an historian by trade and a genealogist by interest (25+ years). Are you deleting as a courtesy or am I totally off-base on acceptable practice (entirely possible!).

[shraby]

10. The newspaper is usually a local thing. If they want to put

them on websites, that's their business, but I'm not going to be responsible for scam artists bothering the survivors. At least the researchers will know there is an obituary available if they want to contact the library or newspaper for it.
To me putting living people on the web on my site is a no-no.
That's pretty much standard practice for people who maintain county sites like mine.

[enlightenment]

11. Okay. I wasn't criticising - sorry if it sounded like I was . . .

Are you running a GenWeb site or something more local?

[shraby]

14. It used to be a Genweb site, but when Ancestry started

hosting the web space, I left..don't trust Ancestry. All they'd have to do is change the passwords and then they could charge for al the info people worked hard to put on the Genweb sites.

[enlightenment]

15. Isn't that the truth?

They're rapidly becoming a monopoly, though. I expect to hear that they've bought access rights to the Library of Congress any day now . . .

:(

[burnsei sensei]

6. "mutual forbearance"

That's great. I wish mutual forbearance was talked about more often in the here and now.

[DemocracyInaction]

7. Don't laugh

When I was in college in Wisconsin, we would have these farmers and their buckboards to contend with down on Main Street!!! Picture this: drunken college students on a Saturday afternoon at college football time ..and..horses. Man those were the great old days!

[shraby]

8. Buckboards (trailers) still don't have license plates here

in Wisconsin..farmers who haul hay from fields to the barn don't like that kind of law so we all enjoy the situation. Edited to add that they also haul other kinds of equipment behind their tractors that don't need licenses.