ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

Introduction:
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST
WPA Project 16823
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 a set of at least one volume per year, covering the
years 1818 - 1935 and including an abstract of every newspaper story that
has recorded a local event or expressed a local opinion. Abstracts are filed
chronologically under subject headings alphabetically ordered. The abstracts
thus arranged are numbered consecutively. A chronological index brings to­
gether by number all abstracts from the newspaper of a given date, and a
proper names and subject heading index offers an additional check.
The editors have sought to preserve and arrange in this series informa­
tion that is nowhere else available and readily subject to control. To avoid
duplication they have concentrated their efforts on one major newspaper
file - the principal one for the period. This method of work leaves out of
account the diversities of opinion expressed by other newspapers. In the
hope that the other files may be covered in respect of opinions there ex­
pressed, the present volume is numbered Part I. Part II, when and as pro­
duced, will complete the presentation of opinion from other sources.
The file of the Cleveland HERALD AND GAZETTE has been used in the
preparation of this volume. In 1838 the editor of the HERALD AND GAZETTE
was J. A. Harris.
Reference Line - H&G Dec. 5; ed:2/1 indicates that the article follow­
ing this reference was an editorial taken from the HERALD AND GAZETTE
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