Welcome to a new decade and the era of lots of changes. 1920 is a booming year for Lake City, Florida with the first World War over, the boys home and everyone getting back to the business of working, taking care of family and growing the best products that are shipped all over the country. Lake City has become the Gateway into Florida with more and more people coming through here for the winter months and others coming to stay. N.G. Wade of Jacksonville has purchased the Blanche Hotel and is in the mood to expand to take advantage of all the new travelers coming into the state by cars.
News clips through the year:
Lake City Reporter – 06 Feb 1920
The Wrigley Gum Biplane lands in LC to deliver gum packs
Lake City Reporter – 06 Feb 1920
Wireless Phone Not Bulky
The wireless telephone of Dr. Lee DeForest is not a bulky apparatus . It might be set upon a table at ones elbow and connected to the electric light circuit. Conversations may be carried on with any similar instrument within a radius of 25 miles. Sound wave adjusters prevent anyone else but the “right number” from listening in. The device is so simple the inventor says, that a child can operate it.
Lake City Reporter – 27 February 1920
Columbia College Property to be Used as a Government Hospital
Lake City Reporter – 26 March 1920
A Squadron of Master Fliers that have been Thrilling the People all over the Country.
Lake City and Columbia County are to be treated to a flying event of interest on Saturday by the Famous Flying Squadron which reached this city on Thursday and which will be here for a few days.
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Lake City Reporter – 10 Sept 1920
New Open Hours – County Books Are Now Open to the Ladies – Official Notice Arrived This Week From Tallahassee
Lake City Reporter – 10 Sept 1920
Miss Gussie Tolbert First Woman Voter
Lake City Reporter – 24 Sept 1920
67 Register in No. 10
Books Show that only 66 White Women and One Colored have Called Upon the Registration Officer in Lake City.
Lake City Reporter – 10 October 1920
Retaking the City Census Now
The business men of Lake City have raised by private subscription a fund sufficient to employ an enumerator to retake the census of the city. Mr. Rees Fielder is now on the job and from reports so far made the census by actual count will far exceed in numbers the estimated report of the government enumerators.
Lake City Reporter – 05 November 1920
Update on the Book: I am still struggling away at reading these old newspapers, gathering clips and writing up notes for each of the types of items that I am looking for to include in the book. I am also still only up to 1927 but getting ready to work on 1928. I have that year’s newspapers cropped and sorted into each weeks newspaper and then each month. They have been uploaded to the online store so you can purchase them and help keep this website going.
I had someone ask me recently why they should pay for the newspapers when they are available for free at the college library on microfilm. And I say go right ahead. You have to obtain a community library card from the librarian to use the facilities at the college if you are not a teacher, student, staff or alumni. Then you get to go into the microfilm room, fire up the machines, locate the film year you are looking for and load it into the machine to view. Then you have to fast forward to the month and then date of the newspaper you are looking to find. Once located you can save each of the pages as an acrobat reader files then move them over to a flash drive and take them home. If you want to copy the entire year’s worth of newspapers the machine can save on auto BUT you have to line up the page in the exact center, set up the auto function, and make sure you refocus the lenses again. Hit go and wait until it completes. Generally, one reel takes about 2 to 2-1/2 hours to complete. You are only allowed to use the room 2 hours at a time UNLESS there is no one waiting.
Now for the bad news. Once you move all the files over to a flash drive and bring them home you will need to combine the pages by date and resave them as the date of the newspaper. The machine only saves each page as a number in consecutive order. Also, the machine sometimes gets confused and will copy 1-1/2 pages again. I just go through each page, crop off the duplicates and then combine them into one document per date.
Download this pdf file. You will find a newspaper, hopefully, in the right page order for June 4, 1915 to see an example of a completed edition.
06041915CitizenReporter
So, what are you paying for, my time and use of my software programs to create a nice PDF document that you can make as large as you need it to be to read without stressing your eyes too much. And hopefully bringing a little bit of your history to life through the newspaper articles. If you want to pay me a few bucks to help you gather newspapers for your own research than just go the iSell pages.
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