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Dispatches from the Newspaper Project

August 3, 2012 Meghan Lyon 1 Comment

One of our many renovation-related tasks involves re-foldering and re-boxing our fragile newspapers. The Rubenstein Library has thousands of American newspapers, dating from the Revolutionary War through the early twentieth century. Here is one of the highlights, from The Daily Express of Petersburg, Virginia, 1858 Dec.:

Fantastic Story1 — Part 1 of An Interesting Divorce Case: Beautiful Wife Prays to be Separated from Ugly Husband.

Fantastic Story2 — Part 2 of An Interesting Divorce Case features laundry, father-in-law insults, attempted poisoning, corn-and-beans throwing, dirty carpets, and Niagara Falls dunking.

Post contributed by Carrie Mills, Holdings Management Assistant in the Rubenstein Library’s Technical Services Dept.

Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University