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The Scholastic and The Observer; Today's Catholic; the trade journals
The university papers: Notre Dame's Scholastic and The Observer are, for the university's own files, the press of record at ground level. The Scholastic of May 1879 carries the sentence the fire record stands on — "The origin of the fire is unknown" — and The Observer of 5 April 1968 was read in the Notre Dame Archives' own run for the King assassination's South Bend week. Both stand in the Notre Dame entries of the archives part below; as sources they are student papers, printed here as what they are: the nearest contemporary account the campus kept of itself.
The church paper: Today's Catholic, the diocesan newspaper, is the Religion and Charities sections' press of record for the Catholic institutions — anniversaries, foundings, the Catholic Charities centennial — read alongside the diocese's own archive-derived histories. The trade press: for the business record, the trade journals are the contemporary technical press and were used as such — Iron Age, Aviation Week, Paper Trade Journal, Product Engineering, Design News, The Upholsterer & Interior Decorator, Labor Notes — each carrying the industry's own account of a South Bend firm at the date of the event, checked where the record allowed against the firms' and the government's record.
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