| "Most extant early-day newspapers of the Tri-Cities area are available on microfilm, and many of those also exist as bound volumes in local libraries. The exception is 'The Franklin Recorder', which is in a bound volume only. It apparently began January 1, 1897, but the book starts with Volume 1, Number 2, for January 8, 1897. Other issues are also missing. The paper began as a single folded sheet of four unnumbered pages. The first and last consist of national and international news, and the second is largely editorials and local advertising. The only local items appear on the third page, always beginning with 'City Items,' apparently gathered in the Pasco office by the editor and publisher, C.T. Giezentanner. Other contributions were sent in by correspondents and were headed 'Kennewick Sparks,' 'Notes from Wallula,' 'Cherubs from Horse Heaven,' and 'Lower Yakima Jots.' Intermingled with the items of news were three- or four-line ads from local merchants as well as much longer encomiums for patent medicines. We begin here a series of abstracts from these local items, planning to use all of those which mention local persons, even when they do not include first names. The bound volume from which we are working is housed in the Pasco building of the Mid-Columbia Regional Library and must be requested at the desk."
|
