Oly-based WA Standard added to historic newspaper collection
The front page of Dec. 24, 1920, edition of the Washington Standard. (Images courtesy Washington State Library) Ever wonder what was newsworthy in Olympia way back in Washington’s territorial days? Now you can find out thanks to the Washington State Library’s latest addition to the popular Chronicling America program. The State Library has finished digitizing more than 60 years’ worth of one of Washington’s earliest territorial newspapers, the Olympia-based Washington Standard. The collection ranges from 1860 (the year before the…