From: keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 2/23/2020 8:41 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 11:39:25 +0000, MB  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I often search various newspaper archives, including foreign ones.  It   
   >> is always interesting to see quite trivial local items in Australian,   
   >> Canadian, NZ etc newspapers.  How were they distributed?   
   >>   
   >> It was quite common to see an announcement / report in a local paper to   
   >> have a request for various countries' newspaper to copy it and publish.   
   >   
   > And some of them did, apparently.   
   >   
   > Aunt Agatha emigrated from Eastvale, Yorkshire 30 uears ago and dies   
   > in New Zealand, and her death announcement would appear in New Zealand   
   > papers with the request "Yorkshire papers please copy", and they did.   
   > It was a hardcopy version of social media, the equivalent of "Please   
   > like and share" or "Please retweet".   
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   There is also the occasion when a relative will put an announcement when   
   the principal of the article lives in another city or country.  An   
   article in a newspaper of a death in a distant city, help me find the   
   family in the city the newspaper was published.   
      
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