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Overview: A faithful reporter of the passing news since 1829 ... Editorial: The Journal at 175 ... Mark Patinkin: Journal's legacy is covering it all ...
To our readers ... The inside story ... For the record: Who's the oldest? ... Staffers on this project ...
Pressing details: Journal technology through the years ... The Providence Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1. ...
Digital Extra: Slideshow of the 48-page 175th anniversary special section
Multimedia: Listen to Journal editors on WPRO marking The Providence Journal's 175th anniversary
Audio: Journal reporter Mark Arsenault talks about the project on wrni.org / Journal radio commercial
Video: Journal sports editor Art Martone talks about the Sports Department / Sports columnists share their 'greatest sports moments' / Sports staffers tell 'what has changed' over the years / Sports columnist Jim Donaldson's choices
1820 to 1839: The race to become R.I.’s first daily ... An indentured printer...Jackson’s State of the Union...Minister, mill girl scandal...City gamblers queue up for lottery tickets...R.I.’s other daily...
1840 to 1859: Dot-dash: The future arrives... Henry Anthony: one-man powerhouse... Providence, Fall River swept up in ‘Lindimania’... Mixed message on slavery... Rebel with a cause... Hoopla over hoop skirts...
1860 to 1869: Lincoln-Douglas: free men and free clams... Gettysburg: a ‘great turning point’... Bloody path to abolition... Call to arms... Evening Bulletin debuts... Dispatches from the battlefield... Lee gets no respect... A newspaper in mourning...
1870 to 1879: Passing the mantle to a woman... From Providence Journal to Wall Street Journal... ‘Indians must be made to pay the penalty’... Ironclads fail to impress...
1880 to 1889: Grays shine in 1st World Series... Prohibition editorial: Quench our thirst... Buffalo Bill Cody on Wild Westminster... Sunday paper debuts, Monday paper assailed... Republicans: Party’s over for The Journal... Assassin sings from the gallows... Linotype speeds printing process... Ode to a water bucket...
1890 to 1899: A disaster plan that was never used... The Great Whodunit... Journal saddles up for remote murder hearing...
1900 to 1909: Saturday night employee exodus... Keeping watch as McKinley lay dying... Flying machine had Wright stuff... Digging a deep foundation on Eddy Street... Block Island gets the latest buzz... Storms knock wireless staff off their feet... Journal helps readers reach loved ones after quake...
1910 to 1919: Providence woman recounts Titanic tragedy... Readers put on alert for spies... Assembly accused of graft... War casts shadow on Sox title... Fiction writer... Editor tells tall tales of espionage... ‘Shrieking mob of humanity’ celebrates war’s end...
1920 to 1929: S.O.B.: Poetic license or poetic justice?... Babe Ruth ‘sold for the good of the Red Sox’... Journal just says ‘no’ to Senate censorship... Sevellon Brown ushers in bureau system... Speedy delivery to Block Island... Proofreader wages daily battle over masthead...
1930 to 1939: New headquarters on Fountain Street... Time, distance no match for express Wirephoto... Editorial: Curb Hitler’s authority... Call, Post rescue Journal after hurricane... Legislature fails rubber-stamp test... Switchboard deluged after Welles’ ‘sketch’... A competitive edge over The Trib...
1940 to 1949: Meaning of Christmas remembered in conflict... America urged to help Britain’s war effort... Hitler, not Japan, seen as ultimate U.S. enemy... Love knows no boundaries for GI, fiancée... Raw power of A-bomb stuns world... Journal Canteen: Respite for servicemen... Cold War on the horizon... Bosox shoo-in to win ’46 series...
1950 to 1959: Team work captures Pulitzer for Journal staff... Kennedy beams with bride, Khrushchev beams with pride... Journal driver dies in ice rescue... Turtle snippets for a slow news day... The race into space... Public business is public’s business... The 107-year front-page typo... 103 perish in Bennington blast...
1960 to 1969: Reporter saves boy in ice rescue... Spot color debuts... Praise, propaganda on manned space flights... The slain leaders of the ’60s... The dream was indeed impossible... A nuclear warning... Vietnam — a political war...
1970 to 1979: Providence College dorm fire claims 10 lives... Rolling Stones get no satisfaction in R.I.... Watkins’ watch: Circulation, computers... ’73 strike called over retroactive pay... Blizzard of ’78 shuts down state, not Journal presses... Nixon to Journal:‘I’m not a crook’... Journal first to report Nixon’s resignation... A Dent in ’78 Red Sox season... A sure bet: Journal antes up for Pete Rose... Review of a porn flick...
1980 to 1989: Dogged determination to solve shepherd mystery... ‘What is this madness that afflicts us?’... Flexo process keeps readers’ hands a little cleaner... Australia II knocks wind out of Liberty’s sails... Painful memories of ’86 World Series Game 6... Fight over censorship... Publisher dies in cycling accident...
1990 to 1999: Publisher culminates career with sale to Belo... Governor goes public with paternity claim... Journal apologizes after vulgarity in photo goes unnoticed... A Pulitzer for court probe... State police boss returns reporter’s seized notebook... Goodbye to The Evening Bulletin... Company sells first publicly traded stock... Projo.com debuts... Journal expands local news coverage...
2000 to 2004: Three die in Journal shooting... Reports from Iraq via satellite... The Station fire — Who lived, who died and why?... Sutton leads Journal in new century...
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