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  2. The Gleaner - Wikipedia

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    The Gleaner is an English-language, morning daily newspaper founded by two brothers, Jacob and Joshua de Cordova on 13 September 1834 in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] It is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Western Hemisphere. [2] Originally called the Daily Gleaner, the name was changed on 7 December 1992 to The Gleaner.

  3. Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

  4. History of Jamaican newspapers - Wikipedia

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    On the abolition of slavery in the 1830s, Gleaner Company was founded by two Jamaican Jewish brothers, Joshua and Jacob De Cordova. [3] While the Gleaner represented the new establishment for the next century, there was a growing black nationalist movement that campaigned for increased political representation and rights in the early twentieth ...

  5. Google archives really old newspapers

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    Google is digitizing microfilm from old newspapers and bringing it online to you -- free. It's springing for the cost to put the old film online, opening up vast amounts of local American history ...

  6. List of newspapers in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of newspapers in Jamaica: Daily Star [1] The Daily Gleaner, the oldest Jamaican daily published by Gleaner Company, founded in 1834, oldest continually published, English language newspaper in the Western Hemisphere [2] The Agriculturalist, the oldest and most consistent agricultural newspaper in the Caribbean for 28 years ...

  7. Timeline of Kingston, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica Gleaner newspaper begins publication. [14] [15] Mico College founded. [2] 1843 26 August: Fire. [11] Agricultural Society founded. [16] 1845 – Spanish Town-Kingston railway (Jamaica Railway Company) begins operating [17] and Kingston railway station opens. 1862 - Fire. [3] 1870 – Legislative Council of British Jamaica moves to ...

  8. Gleaner Company - Wikipedia

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    The Gleaner Company Ltd. is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica. Established in 1834 by Joshua and Jacob De Cordova , the company's primary product is The Gleaner , a morning broadsheet published six days each week.

  9. Louise Bennett-Coverley - Wikipedia

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    Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator.Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois ("nation language"), [2] establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression.

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