THE PLANK OCTOBER 28, 2007
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People have yet to fully discover and appreciate the splendor of the New York Times making its complete archives from 1860 available online for free. Needless so say you can read endlessly about wars and presidents and so on. But the archives are also filled with stories like this 1886 tale of a Detroit man scalded to death by boiling candy.
--Michael Crowley
5 comments
If TimesCo Can, CanWest?
Open 'em up to subsrcubers, anyway. What's it costing you? Does anyone really pay for access to the archives?
- teplukhin2you
October 29, 2007 at 12:55am
I've been a faithful subscriber since the 1960s when I was in college. It offends me to have to pay to look up an article in the archives that I've already paid for. I've saved all of Stanley's reviews, and occasional book reviews, but who can save everything? I'd love to reread Gene McCarthy's essay on baseball, but I won't pay for it. This policy is alienating to loyal readers.
- jhgerard
October 29, 2007 at 10:36am
I've been alerted that the Detroit candy kettle explosion was nothing compared to the quite catastrophic
- Anonymous
October 29, 2007 at 9:53pm
Ah, the Golden Age of "Journalism"!
Snickenbacker is an especially creative touch, since there's never been anyone in the history of the planet with that precise surname. It works well in context, don't you think?
- hanksims1
October 30, 2007 at 12:18am
I spoke too soon! There were Snickenbackers in Michigan at one time. Carl must have been the last of the line.
Click on my URL to witness my shame.
- hanksims1
October 30, 2007 at 12:29am