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How To Search
- Select the date range you want to search. If you don't select
anything, all years will be searched.
- Type a word or words in the search box and press enter or click
on search. Please Note:
do not use pucntuation marks or apostrophes. (e.g. use "children
museum" if searching for "children's museum")
- Keep it Simple! -- newspaper headlines
can be very brief!
- When searching for a person, try last name only when possible
- When searching for a company name that contains initials use
the Exact Phrase search or browse by Subject
- Capital letters are not needed.
- Word order does not matter unless performing and Exact Phrase
search.
- Avoid common words like a, the, of etc.
- Remember that this is a very selective index and that many of
the past years are not well represented. Read About
the Index for more details about the scope of the index.
About the Search Results
- Searches will return partial matches. A search for park
will also retrieve parks, parking, parked etc.
- Records are ordered first by Date and then alphabetically by
Subject. Click on the word "date" on the search results page to
reverse the date order (you may have to click a second time to
get this to work).
- Clicking on a Subject Link will create a new search returning
all articles with the same subject.
- Some articles are listed under more than one subject so you
may notice duplicate records.
- You can limit by date any time during the search process.
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