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New Holland Clarion

Published weekly in New Holland from 1873-1984, The New Holland Clarion was the lone source of community information and news in the eastern part of the county until the late 1950s when competition began to appear. The newspaper provided local, world, and regional news, as well as marriage announcements, obituaries, and information on social events. Articles and advertisements in the Clarion chronicle the history of local businesses such as Storb, Snader & Company silk mill, the Wright Bakery, and the New Holland Machine Company. Historical sketches of the town contain unique information and editorials provide insight into how people in the community addressed major issues.

Instructions

CLICK HERE to download a copy of these instructions on using this online newspaper database.

The digitized newspaper is part of the Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository. The newspaper has been divided into three sections:

  • Lancaster County—The New Holland Clarion, 1873-1890
  • Lancaster County—The New Holland Clarion, 1891-1910
  • Lancaster County—The New Holland Clarion, 1911-1950

www.accesspadr.org:2005/cdm4/search.php will link to the advanced search screen. At the lower left of the screen, select the collection(s) you wish to search and then click on add. Your selected collection(s) will appear in the box at the lower right.

Type your search term(s) in the appropriate box at the top of the screen.

Click on the search button and a results page will open.

Click on the item you would like to see. The newspaper page will open with the search term highlighted. The page number for the page you are viewing will be in red on the left side of the screen.

Click on the highlighted search term to zoom in on the page.

The tool bar at the center of the screen will allow you to zoom in or out, view the whole page, move around the page, view a thumbnail which shows the section of the page you have zoomed in on, and select text to print.

To view the volume, issue, and date: click on go at the far left next to View: “document description.”

To print, click on the stylus on the tool bar. Draw a box around the text you would like to print by placing the + at the upper left corner of the text, left click and hold while you drag the + down to the right corner of the text. When you have a red box around the selection, let go of the mouse. A new window will open showing only the selected text. Click on the print icon.

To return to the results page, click back to results just above the tool bar.

You may begin a new search by clicking on search again at the center of the screen or advanced search at the top of the screen.

 

Credits

The project to digitize The New Holland Clarion, 1873-1950, was a collaborative effort between The Lancaster County Historical Society and the Eastern Lancaster County Library, with assistance from the Lancaster County Digitization Project. The project has been partially funded with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries.
 

Community Stories

That girl has Moxie!

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My name is Julianne Petrillo.  I am a freshman at Lancaster Catholic High School.  I enjoy learning about history, so I am volunteering this summer at LancasterHistory.org, Lancaster County’s Historical Society and President James Buchanan’s Wheatland.  At the Historical Society I volunteer in the archives department.  I studied receipts from a store in Lancaster during the 1920s.  I learned so much about items being sold back then and was amazed at how old some of my favorite snacks were such as Life Savers, Oreos, taffy, saltines, and Moxie.  At Wheatland I volunteer for special events giving tours as well as helping dust the antique furniture.  I enjoy working at the Historical Society and Wheatland very much and hope to be back next summer!

Parks and Recreation

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Amy Noll is a New Hampshire native who graduated with her B.A. in History and Management from Gettysburg College in 2007.  She received her M.L.S. with a specialization in Archives, Records, and Information Management from the University of Maryland in 2009, and recently moved into the Lancaster area.  She has past experience working at the National Archives and is also a Civil War Reenactor.  In the Archives, Amy is working on the Lancaster Recreation Commission Records manuscript group.  She has found many interesting records about past recreational programming for senior citizens as well as records detailing the creation and acquisition of some of Lancaster’s most well known public parks.

Cultural Politics

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My name is Rebecca Macy and I am a rising sophomore at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. I am an American Studies major with a concentration in Cultural Politics. I have a great interest in civil rights, immigration, and the American Presidency. With a love of history, I am so excited to be working in my hometown this summer with LancasterHistory.org, Lancaster County's Historical Society & President James Buchanan's Wheatland!

Living History

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At the time of her internship Katelynn Stauffer will be a rising sophomore at Gettysburg College, where she will be majoring in History and Political Science with minors in Education and Civil War Era Studies. While interning at Wheatland she will be working on the creation of a new living history tour that will examine the war years at Wheatland.  She will be organizing volunteers and setting up a test run of the program for the public.

Diplomacy

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Alex Trimble is a senior at Elizabethtown Area High School. His primary focus of study has been in history and social sciences. During his internship at the James Buchanan Wheatland mansion he will be conducting research on James Buchanan's diplomatic mission to Russia.

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