New finds in newspapers

 

Ancestry's Newspapers.com. 28 May 2025.

Ancestry adds new content all the time to Newspapers.com, so it is important to regularly check back on family names for new articles and references. This afternoon, Ancestry shared a content update on 212 papers added to the archives. Sure enough, these papers contained some relevant articles. Just like earlier in the month when I found some new-to-me mentions of Agnes Atherton in Cincinnati in 1909, today's update contained articles from the Finger Lakes Times. In the summer of 1899, Agnes was on the vaudeville circuit in Upstate New York. These articles help fill in the gaps.

In the last week of August 1899 through Labor Day, Agnes was performing at Cayuga Lake Park. This is a great area for wine tasting today, and one of our favorites, Hermann J. Weimer Vineyard, is midway up the west side of neighboring Seneca Lake if driving north towards Geneva.

Finger Lakes Times. 28 Aug 1899.

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