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The best I've come up with from vintage newspapers was from a letter period in the early 1900's in Victoria, BC, and it was an article on sea chanties by Frank Bullen. There were also a poem or two by C. Fox Smith while she was resident there, which was why I was straining my eyes on the microfilm viewer for hours.

More and more old newspapers are becoming available on-line which does make this type of newspaper research potentially more fruitful.

Charley Noble