near a black oak, etc." D. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Robinson, Mary N. Title: Gleanings from an old newspaper / by Mrs. Mary N. Robinson. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster

.) Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1908 Description: [71]-81 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 12, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.12 Location

AN EARLY NEWSPAPER The importance and value of news- papers in the study of local history can not well be overrated. They come next in importance to the original records of State and county. In more recent times they have lost somewhat of their value from the coloring given to public questions as

newspapers and books. Their influence was unquestionably great, as we know from the very general circu- �lation of their weekly papers, and from the further fact that there is hardly a family in the county to-day, whose his- tory goes back a hundred years or more, that has not a number of old books printed