140-year-old Obwaldner Zeitung and Amtsblatt now available as e-paper
Official gazettes from the canton of Obwalden dating from 1854 to 1917, as well as the newspaper *Obwaldner Volksfreund*, are now available as e-papers. The Obwalden State Archives and the Obwalden Cantonal Library have digitized these issues and made them available online for viewing.
The digital copies of the two publications were made for reasons of preservation, the State Archives and the Cantonal Library announced on Friday. Because the documents would be suitable for presentation on the Internet, a presentation platform for digitized written material was set up in close cooperation.
Both official gazette and Obwaldner Volksfreund are two valuable historical sources. For example, the official gazette is not only a chronological official collection of laws, but it also contains information on population trends, election results and flour or bread prices.
The Catholic conservative newspaper Obwaldner Volksfreund appeared for the first time on Christmas Eve in the year of our Lord 1870 as a weekly newspaper on Saturday mornings. "Anyone not refecting this sample number is considered a subscriber," the first issue read. In 1972, the Volksfreund with the Lunger Messenger and appeared from 1982 as The Obwaldenbefore the newspaper was discontinued in August 1982. (SDA/hae)
