COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 29 -jo

RobMarland · Post by **RobMarland** » March 6th, 2013, 6:51 pm

Thanks for going through this with me, Sue. I didn't want to just go ahead and post an mp3 without being sure.

The articles are in the Chicago Tribune, New York Sun and New York Times, all from December 1882. The Sun is on chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, so that one's fine: I have a link for it. The Tribune and Times pieces I could not find on the web for free, and got elsewhere (some time back - I was researching a non-Librivox project).

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » March 6th, 2013, 7:36 pm

RobBoard wrote:Thanks for going through this with me, Sue. I didn't want to just go ahead and post an mp3 without being sure.

The articles are in the Chicago Tribune, New York Sun and New York Times, all from December 1882. The Sun is on chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, so that one's fine: I have a link for it. The Tribune and Times pieces I could not find on the web for free, and got elsewhere (some time back - I was researching a non-Librivox project).

RobBoard, try here for a start:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/oscar.html

which is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program from the U.S. Library of Congress:

http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/

RobMarland · Post by **RobMarland** » March 6th, 2013, 8:19 pm

Unfortunately, the LOC doesn't hold the Chicago Tribune or New York Times, as far as I can see. But I managed to find the NYT article on their own website (it's free, but I think they put a cookie on your machine to limit the number of articles you can download). And a virtually identical reprint of the Tribune piece appeared in the freely accessible Salt Lake Herald. So I have links for all three now.

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » March 6th, 2013, 8:41 pm

RobBoard wrote:Unfortunately, the LOC doesn't hold the Chicago Tribune or New York Times, as far as I can see. But I managed to find the NYT article on their own website (it's free, but I think they put a cookie on your machine to limit the number of articles you can download). And a virtually identical reprint of the Tribune piece appeared in the freely accessible Salt Lake Herald. So I have links for all three now.

That's great!

RobMarland · Post by **RobMarland** » March 7th, 2013, 12:11 pm

OK, here is my submission. I set the author as Anonymous, since the articles don't have bylines. Please let me know if there is a different convention.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf029_oscarwildefleecedatbanco_anon_rb.mp3

Oscar Wilde Fleeced at Banco by Anonymous: 10.09

1 Oscar in a Bunco Game, Salt Lake Herald, 27 12 1882, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1882-12-27/ed-1/seq-8/
2 Mr Wilde Closes his Bank Account, New York Sun, 27 12 1882, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1882-12-27/ed-1/seq-1/
3 Wilde Fleeced at Banco, New York Times, 29 12 1882, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70815FC3E5910738DDDA00A94DA415B8284F0D3

Thanks!

Arnieh · Post by **Arnieh** » March 8th, 2013, 12:49 am

I'd like to submit the excerpt on Captain Mission from The Pirate's Who's Who, mentioned here:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=44965

Thanks.

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » March 8th, 2013, 7:22 am

Hi Arnie, That would be fine. No need to get "authorization" to submit a recording to the Short Nonfiction Collection, as long as it's-- nonfiction--in the public domain--less than 60 minutes in length. Just send up the finished recording. Thanks in advance!

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » March 8th, 2013, 8:34 am

RobBoard wrote:OK, here is my submission. I set the author as Anonymous, since the articles don't have bylines. Please let me know if there is a different convention.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf029_oscarwildefleecedatbanco_anon_rb.mp3

Oscar Wilde Fleeced at Banco by Anonymous: 10.09

Thanks!

RobBoard, Thanks for your submission!

Should make for interesting listening!

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » March 10th, 2013, 4:52 pm

RobBoard wrote: Oscar Wilde Fleeced at Banco by Anonymous: 10.09

Hi RobBoard, Your Oscar Wilde is PL OK!

Combining the three newspaper articles to tell a story was clever; what amazed me is that stories about similar "bunco" games still crop up in today's news.

Arnieh · Post by **Arnieh** » March 11th, 2013, 7:49 pm

Here is Captain Mission, from the Pirates Who's Who by Phillip Gosse. I used the same type of intro and outro as the previously cataloged Blackbeard excerpt.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf029_captainmission_gosse_ah.mp3

Source text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19564

Duration (16:00)
File Size: 14.6 MB

He was the mildest-manner'd man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » March 12th, 2013, 3:55 am

Thanks Arnieh, You're in the MW!

RobMarland · Post by **RobMarland** » March 12th, 2013, 9:02 am

Sue Anderson wrote: what amazed me is that stories about similar "bunco" games still crop up in today's news.

Thanks, Sue! Yes, it's a good job that there was no internet in 1882 or Wilde would definitely have been sunk by an African prince scam.

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » March 12th, 2013, 9:40 am

This is a newspaper report from the Poverty Bay Herald, New Zealand, at the time of the Second Boer War (1901). Odd choice, you may think, but I am currently recording a political satire which has a parody of General Buller's speech, and it will be good to have the original recorded for reference.

Title: General Buller's Defence, author unknown.
Text source: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=PBH19011114.2.5
Upload URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf029_generalbullersdefence_unknown_rg.mp3
Duration: 9:55
Size: 9.08 MB

Material on this website has been provided in good faith for users by the National Library on the basis that:
the newspaper publications provided from the 19th and early 20th century are out of copyright

Thanks!

Ruth

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » March 12th, 2013, 2:15 pm

Ruth, Thanks for your contribution "General Buller's Defense."

Nothing is an "odd choice" for the nonfiction collection; we like variety!

soupy · Post by **soupy** » March 12th, 2013, 2:42 pm

Here is a recording from me. Please let me know if its appropriate. Thanks for your work.

Occasional thoughts of Horace Seaver. From fifty years of free thinking (1888)
http://archive.org/details/occasionalthough00seaviala

Agitation p. 37-38 a short section of the book

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf029_agitation_seaver_cc.mp3

Thanks for the help - here it is.
3.57 MB 3 min 53 seconds