For Blyth history buffs and Blyth watchers, old news is good news.
A few weeks ago a large number of back issues of the Blyth Standard were discovered in a store room above Blyth Printing. Many of our readers will recall that the Standard was produced in that building from 1938 to the time that the paper was sold. The papers apparently remained undisturbed for many years because they are in excellent condition considering their age.
Jan and I were thrilled when we were told that the Whitmore family were giving us the entire bundle which will become part of the Repository of Blyth History. We have turned them over to the Huron County Library for microfilming and digitizing, so that the collection will be added to the newspaper microfilms available in the main branches of the library. We are all indebted to the Whitmore family for making these available.
There are no complete years of issues, but there are substantial numbers from 1900, 1902, 1903, 1907, 1908, 1930, 1943. There are a couple of fragmented issues from the 1890s, on 1914 issue, and a few from various years in the 1940s.
In all, there are about 150 issues of the Blyth Standard, 1200 pages most of which were believed to be lost in the mists of time.
WOW!
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