The Lonaconing Star

Annamarie Klose Hrubes, Amber Harrison, Claire Lauder and MaryJo Price are pictured in Special Collections unrolling fragile issues of The Lonaconing Star newspaper that were recently donated to the Ort Library by Edward H. Getson  of Lonaconing.  Anna is leading the effort to carefully unroll the issues, separate them with archival safe tissue paper and flatten them in preparation for digitizing the area newspaper later this year. Gloves are worn to protect the sheets from natural skin oils, and a mask protects staff from dust and other allergens. The newspaper donation includes assorted issues between 1900 and 1902.  The Lonaconing Star published by J. J. Robinson adopted the tag line “INDEPENDENT—NOT NEUTRAL. "

This July 5, 1900 issue reported on area labor problems.