From the Washington Secretary Of State's Office blog:

"2020 was an extraordinary year for many reasons, all of which have been immortalized in catchy headlines and sensational news stories.

"Future generations will marvel at these stories and wonder how we coped during these extraordinary times. Much like how we look back on years past and wonder about the issues and challenges our recent ancestors endured.

"Yet thanks to the Washington State Library’s Washington Digital Newspapers (WDN) program – funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) – we can more than wonder. We can read for ourselves and learn firsthand.

What Do You Know about Spanish Flu? Uncle Sam’s Health Experts Tell How to Handle Disease if it Hits Your Family The Seattle star. (Seattle, WA), Oct. 11, 1918.

"Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, has digitized over 450,000 pages of historic Washington newspapers for the WDN website, including over 27,000 new issues that have just been released and are now available and free to the public.

"These include issues of the Anacortes American (1985-2000) and Catholic Northwest Progress (1957-1966), which were made available by the City of Anacortes Museum/Skagit Publishing and the Seattle Archdiocese, respectively. Essential to these and all WDN collections are partnerships with museums, libraries, archives, and publishers from across the state to preserve newspapers and our communities’ cultural heritage."

You can read much more at: https://blogs.sos.wa.gov/fromourcorner/index.php/2021/01/breaking-news-more-historic-washington-newspapers-online/.