The London Free Press

 

The Good Old Days
   Seventy-five years ago that brief article was published in The Times (of London - the other one, June 14, 1949) when The London Free Press turned 100.  It is obviously a slow news day here and I just thought I would take the time to remind you that newspapers were once thicker and there were more of them.
    Although one can now find and read the older and much thicker newspapers that were published in the United States, and in B.C. and Alberta, that is not the case for most newspapers in Ontario unless you have access to some commercial database or travel to a library and attempt to read them on a microfilm machine. You can, however, view over a million photographs that were published in The London Free Press, by going up to the Western and consulting The London Free Press Collection of Photographic Negatives. 

   One can, of course, search the U.S. newspapers for articles about London and many are found.
   

For example, The Nome Nugget noticed in 1946 that reporters here had their own plane.
   

London is also found in many advertisements, the loss of which is the reason why we now don't have many papers. Here is one from the New York Tribune, July 18, 1909

The Bonus:
   I was able to find a partial copy of The London Free Press centennial edition in the County of Brant Public Library. Here is what the front page looks like and the readers back then still had 231 left to read.