Digital Archives Open Hidden Treasures of the Past by Dick Cooper
Random bits of personal informat ion, of ten in shor t, clipped sentences and seldom containing more than two dozen words, f low from one to the next in neat columns on the computer screen. George Bevan of Hillsboro just took a new job as a factory rep for a Michigan company. Howard Jones, a carpenter, has been working in Wilmington but is now home in Denton. Eugene Anderson and his mother are back from a trip to Baltimore. The President of the United
States sent the name of the man he wants to be his new Attorney General to the Senate for confirmation hearings. Lulu Downes of Tuckahoe Neck visited her relative, Anita, in Bridgetown. Tilghman Lockerman tripped while running and broke his arm. The doctor set the arm and he’s okay. These little blurbs may read like Facebook posts or Twitter tweets, but they predate the Internet. They are lifted from the pages of the April 26, 1890, edition of the Denton
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