A newsboy delivers Grit to a rural customer.

RENOVO, Dec. 15, 1882 — Patrick Shelly, a well known citizen who held the positions of town council, high constable and tax collector, was found dead along the water’s edge of the West Branch River opposite Renovo Hotel this afternoon.

Blood was found on the snow a distance of ten feet from the spot where the body was found, indicating foul play. The boots worn by the deceased have disappeared.

The cause of this mysterious death is now being investigated by coroner’s jury.

Sunday Grit as a 99-Cent Download

Buy, download and immediately begin reading the inaugural issue of Sunday Grit, first printed December 16, 1882. In fact, the first three issues ~ December 16, 1882, December 23, 1882 and December 30, 1882 are available for immediate download. Just use the convenient shopping cart above. Indeed, you can begin with a one-time purchase of the first issue and work your way through history, reliving the historic events such as the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the completion of the Washington Monument, the Haymarket Riot in Chicago, the Johnstown Flood, the Spanish-American War, and read about historic figures such as Nellie Bly, Carrie Nation, Charles Lindburg and Amelia Earhart, as well as Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. Individual issues through 1886 will soon be available for immediate download.

Sunday Grit on DVD

Although Sunday Grit is no longer published as a newspaper, you can buy the first four years of historic Sunday Grit (DVD format) and read at your leisure on your laptop, PC or eReader. Now, the original “Odd, Strange and Curious” feature is once again available for your entertainment at the extraordinary low cost of $24.99. Imagine, you can read and save forever your very own collection of Sunday Grit, which do not exist except for a stray, preserved issue in the hands of collectors and microfilm at a library. As more back issues of Sunday Grit are digitized and made available through SundayGrit.com’s archives, they will be added to the subscription service.

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Sunday Grit as a Collectible Book

Sunday Grit Book

Order the book Sunday Grit: A Newspaper Legacy ~ only $24.95

Sunday Grit: A Newspaper Legacy is available at the Williamsport Sun-Gazette for $24.95. It can be purchased if pre-paid by contacting the Sun-Gazette at (800) 339-0289, by stopping by the newspaper at 252 W. Fourth St. in downtown Williamsport. Or, you can submit on-line orders at http://secure.oweb.net/bookoffer.