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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 8, 2021 8:10:28 GMT -5
Thank you to everyone who has played my hunts over the past year. I appreciate your support! Since my first hunt, The Roaring Twenties, I've posted 17 hunts, and awarded over 60 prizes to 32 different winners from 22 states.
14 hunts have been armchair, and 3 have been BOTG. The state with the most winners is CO with 3 :-)
I hope you continue to have fun with my hunts, always free and often with multiple prizes awarded!
I will be posting my next armchair Holiday Hunt on Wednesday, December 1st. (date error corrected)
My Halloween Hunt involved searching Find a Grave in a variety of ways. This next Holiday Hunt will involve searching the newspaper archive, Chronicling America. Between now and December 1st, I will post a series of questions to sharpen your Chronicling America searching skills. There will be no prizes awarded for these questions; they are just for practice and for fun.
Thanks again!
-FHH
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 11, 2021 9:55:56 GMT -5
Here is the first Chronicling America practice question. You can send me the answer here on MW, but please do not post it publicly, so others can solve it. If you get stuck and want a hint to help solve it, send me a message. This one should be easy, but I'll post more difficult ones later. I will post a total of 10 practice questions between now and December 1.
If you send me a message regarding a question, please include the Question # so I know which one you are referring to.
Question #1: The Native American, May 12, 1838. What the packages of wheat were marked with.
Be sure to read through the papers - there are a lot of interesting stories!
-FHH
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Post by pugdaisy920 on Nov 12, 2021 12:10:54 GMT -5
Just wanted to clarify the start date, as it says Saturday, December 1st and the first falls on a Wednesday. Should it be Dec. 4?
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 12, 2021 15:34:07 GMT -5
Just wanted to clarify the start date, as it says Saturday, December 1st and the first falls on a Wednesday. Should it be Dec. 4? Oops, sorry!
I thought I had the November calendar up and saw the upcoming 1st was on Saturday, but I was actually looking at the December calendar. January 1st is a Saturday!
The Holiday Hunt will be posted on December 1st, so that is Wednesday.
Thanks for catching my mistake. I'll fix it on the original post.
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 13, 2021 7:15:50 GMT -5
There are a variety of methods for searching Chronicling America. I was able to find this article by searching by newspaper name, the date, and search word "wheat." The article is at the bottom of the 4th column.
Here is the next question:
Question #2: MOST SHOCKING MURDER, Philadelphia Oct 1. Name of witness.
I will post each answer and a new question every two days.
-FHH
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 15, 2021 9:15:29 GMT -5
Link to the solution to Question #2, MOST SHOCKING MURDER:
There are multiple ways of searching Chronicling America and sometimes you have to try different combinations in different places. This is one method:
I tried searching all newspapers, all dates for the phrase 'MOST SHOCKING MURDER', but the article did not come up. I changed my search to the words "Murder" and "Philadelphia" in the "5 words apart" section. I found the article in the Native American Oct 5, 1839, page 2, bottom of the 3rd column.
Next question:
Question #3: Surname of the Superintendent of Interments and Undertaker of Greenwood Cemetery of New York, in 1842.
Good luck!
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 17, 2021 6:45:07 GMT -5
Link to answer to question #3, Surname of the Superintendents of Interments and Undertaker of Greenwood Cemetery of New York, in 1842:
I searched using the date, New York state newspapers, and using the phrase “Greenwood Cemetery”. 5 results came up. I searched each newspaper and found the article in the New York daily tribune, October 14, 1842, page 3, under G, near the bottom of the 4th column.
Question #4: In 1922, a full-page article about what NYC will be like in 2022. What will prevent airplanes from falling out of the sky?
Good luck!
-FHH
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 19, 2021 9:02:56 GMT -5
The answer to Question #4, the 1922 article about New York City in 2022, can be found here:
Again, there are various ways to search and find articles. This is how I found this one: I searched using the date of 1922, and after being unsuccessful with some word combinations, I used "New York City" & "100 years" 5 words apart (because 2022 is 100 years from 1922). I found the article in the Washington times, July 16, 1922, SUNDAY MORNING, Page 2. The answer to the question is in the top part of the 6th column.
Here is the next question:
Question #5: The first grocery item listed for sale at the newly opened store, as written. The Newport gazette, Jan. 16, 1777.
Good luck!
-FHH
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 21, 2021 12:34:05 GMT -5
The answer to Question #5, about the grocery item can be found here:
To find it, I searched with the date and the newspaper, then read through the pages - you can select each page of a newspaper at the top of the page. I found the article on page 4, bottom of 4th column.
Question #6: What the note said in this mystery to be solved by Sherlock Holmes' assistant in 1922. Indianapolis times.
I have been posting the link to where you can find the answer to each question, but not the answer itself. Once all 10 questions have been posted, I will post a list of the questions with their answers.
Good luck and I hope you are having fun reading old newspapers :-)
-FHH
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 23, 2021 12:38:06 GMT -5
The answer to Question #6 about Sherlock Holmes' assistant solving the mystery of the curious note, can be found at:
I found this article by using the date 1922, the Indianapolis times newspaper, and the search words "Watson" and "mystery" 5 words apart.
I am posting Questions #7 & #8 today because I didn't want to post a question on Thanksgiving. I will post Question #9 on Saturday 11/27 along with the answers to #'s 7 & 8.
Question #7: How much the murderer weighed, according to a psychic in 1910. Daily Capital Journal.
Question #8: The titles of three of the tales in this new book, published by Bell & Entwisle. Alexandria Gazette, June 1839.
Have fun, and I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!
-FHH
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Post by susb8383 on Nov 26, 2021 17:37:02 GMT -5
Question 6 was really hard. I tried everything combination of words I could think of but never found it.
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 27, 2021 8:47:55 GMT -5
Question 6 was really hard. I tried everything combination of words I could think of but never found it. The search engine on Chronicling America can be tricky to navigate.
I find these stories by randomly searching the papers, then I go back to see if I can find the article again using the search engine. Sometimes I can't find it again using every combination that I can think of (and I already know the answer!). Sometimes I just have to abandon an article because I can't find a way to reasonably narrow the search. For this one, I either found too many newspapers, or none at all. Finally, I was able to narrow it down using the year 1922, the paper Indianapolis times, and 'Watson' & 'Mystery' 5 words apart, which brings up just that page.
As frustrating as it can be, I always enjoyed searching the papers looking for that aha! moment!
Two more questions before the Holiday Hunt :-)
-FHH
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 27, 2021 9:00:16 GMT -5
I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving. I spent mine working on a Murder Mystery kit with the family. We have not yet solved it, but know the detectives came to the wrong conclusion and we found the body. Because every character has a motive, finding the real murderer is proving difficult!
The answer to Question #7, about how much a murderer weighed, can be found here:
I found the article by searching in the Daily capital journal (there are two listed; I searched both) using the date 1910, with the words "murderer" & "psychic" 50 words apart. (I tried 5 and 10 words apart, but the article did not show up.). The article starts on page one, but the murderers weight is found on page 12.
The answer to Question #8, about the titles of stories in a newly published book, can be found here:
I had to try a lot of combinations before I hit on one that narrowed the search, and even with this, I had to look through a number of newspapers. I found the article by searching the Alexandria Gazette (DC), with dates of 6/1/1839 - 6/30/1839 and the search words "Bell," "Entwisle," & "Tales" 50 words apart. This brings up a number of newspapers in June of 1939; this link is to the page of matches. The article was found in the third image, June 25th, where all three search words appear together in one entry. Fourth column, about 2/3 of the way down; Heading, NEW ROMANCE, paragraph begins with a large I for Imogene. This one was tricky. Kudos if you found this one!
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Post by susb8383 on Nov 27, 2021 10:13:26 GMT -5
I found that but I'm not sure that paragraph is saying those are all tales in the same book. Based on the way the other paragraphs are worded that also announce books by Bell & Entwisle, this could also mean that there are three separate books: Imogine or the Pirate's Treasure Demon's Cave Tales by George Anne Humphreys Sherburne
A lot of the other book announcements only list the book titles and not the authors, so this could mean three separate books.
I found a different paragraph that mentioned a few new acts added to a play, so thought maybe that was the answer. Each act had a separate title. But a play isn't exactly a tale.
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Nov 27, 2021 10:14:42 GMT -5
Question #9: In January 1911, a strange prediction for 109 years in the future (also 104).
Nostradamus, he wasn't!
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