Hi everyone! Here are this week’s local history photos and vintage newspaper—slightly delayed, thanks for your patience. I was unexpectedly away from the library for most of the past week, but I’m back now.

This is the post intended for last Friday, April 3, and our regular weekly local history posts will resume on their usual Friday schedule going forward – in other words, the next local history post will be out this Friday, April 10, 2026.

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Local History Photo 1: Local Lumber Industry

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Local History Photo 2: Local Baseball Game

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Local History Photo 3: Local Lumber Industry Too

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A Glimpse of Local Life: A Hundred Years Ago!

Here is an entire issue of The Evening Leader, Corning, N.Y. published on this day in 1926.

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The Evening Leader, Corning, N.Y. | April 3, 1926

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Have a great week everyone,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

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Local History Online Library Resources:

Heritage Quest: Heritage Quest is the library’s online genealogy service, and it includes access to census records and other research sources; it can be accessed by going to the Online Resources page, on the library’s website, and scrolling down until you see the link for Heritage Quest:

https://www.ssclibrary.org/research/online-resources/

Once you’ve clicked on the Heritage Quest link, you’ll be prompted to login with your card number and PIN. If you have questions about how to use Heritage Quest, please feel free to let me know – my email address is reimerl@stls.org

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Library Local History/Creation Station Resources:
At the library you can scan your photos and slides to create digital family albums and slideshows; and even use one of the Circut machines, and other Creation Station equipment, to help you create a special paper family history album.

Also of note, we have local papers including the Corning Leader, Corning Evening Leader, Corning Journal and Corning Daily Journal, on microfilm from 1840 to the present — so you can visit the library and research local history and your family tree if you wish!

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Local History & Newspaper blog posts are published on Fridays.