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Macon Telegraph

Last Loaded on Web: Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Last Update To Bluesheet: September 1, 2005

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Subject Coverage Document Types Indexed Contact Additional Indexes Predefined Format Options
Tips Geographic Coverage Terms and Conditions Limit Rates
Dialog File Data Special Features Sample Record Sort


File Description [top]

The Macon Telegraph covers central Georgia to South Carolina. (It is not available on other online services but does have a Web page.) .Primary areas of coverage include farming and related industries (TriState Dairy, Cagle Inc. (chicken processing), and Georgia Farm Bureau Medical Insurance Company) and recreational sports. For farming news, search for the writings of Sharese Shields using AU=. Given that Georgia is home to 38 state parks, the Macon Telegraph provides insights into environmental and rural development issues (see articles by Oby Brown and Bill Weaver). Recreational sports, especially bicycling, fishing, and lakeside activities, are well covered.Regular sections include business, local, state, Georgia living, and sports news, among others. File coverage begins with December, 1994.



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Subject Coverage [top]

  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Business
  • Columns
  • Editorials
  • Features
  • Full Text News Stories
  • Leisure
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Sports
  • Wire Stories


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: July 1994 to the present
File Size: 151,722 records as of July 2008
Update Frequency: Daily


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Newspaper Articles


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • US Only


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
PAPERSGA Georgia Newspapers
PAPERSNU New Papers added since March 1997
PAPERSSE U.S. Southeast Region Newspapers


Contact [top]

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Terms and Conditions [top]

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply.

Articles copyrighted by the individual newspapers. No part of any database may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from the individual newspaper. Customers should familiarize themselves with the terms and conditions relating to the use of each database (see DIALOG Information Provider Terms & Conditions).


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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    09181013  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI  EARTHLINGS SOON TO GET CLOSER LOOK AT  MARS 
  AU=  Knight-Ridder Newspapers 
  JN=, ED=, PG=  Macon Telegraph, HOME ED, P 1 
  PD=, PY=  Monday, June 30, 1997 
  JC=, LA=, RT=  JOURNAL CODE:  MT  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH   RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT 
  /SH, SH=  SECTION HEADING:  A 
    Word Count:  553 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  We humans are taking a giant step this week in our quest for signs of life 
    beyond Earth. 
     
     Two-and-a-half hours before the sun rises on Mars on Friday, (about 1 p.m. 
    EDT), an American rocket ship swathed in 16 balloons is to land with a 
    series of humongous bounces in a rock-strewn flood-plain near the Martian 
    equator. 
     
     After rolling to rest, the spaceship Pathfinder, will open like the petals 
    of a flower to let a little roving robot, tagged Sojourner, trundle down a 
    ramp and start exploring the ruddy surface of the Red Planet an object of 
    awe and speculation since the dawn of mankind. 
     
        "This is a new way of landing a spacecraft on a planet," said Brian 
    Muirhead, flight systems manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 
    Pasadena, Calif. "Frankly, we'll be very surprised if everything goes just 
    right." 
     
       If it does, about four hours after landing, Pathfinder will pop up an 
    antenna and radio back the first closeup pictures of Mars since the Viking 
    landings 21 years ago. Live television pictures are expected that evening 
    and daily through the first week of the mission. 
     
                                    (...) 
     
       Instead, Pathfinder and its 23-pound roving sidekick will check out what 
    scientists believe is a likely site for finding rocks like the 4 
    billion-year-old Martian meteorite that was picked up in Antarctica in 
    1984. Last August, after years of intense study, some researchers claimed 
    the meteorite contained what looked like ancient fossils of microorganisms, 
    resembling the strange bacteria recently found at the bottom of the ocean 
    and deep underground on Earth. 
     
       Other scientists dispute the meteorite evidence, however. A definitive 
    answer probably must wait until a future spacecraft brings back Martian 
    samples to study in terrestrial laboratories a mission planned for 2005. 
     
       Pathfinder's landing site, Ares Vallis, was chosen because it contains a 
    treasure trove of rocks washed down from the Martian highlands during what 
    scientists believe was a catastrophic flood more than 3 billion years ago. 
        Copyright (c) 1997, The Macon Telegraph 
     
  /CO, CO=  COMPANY NAMES (Dialog Generated):  Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; Pathfinder 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S ROCKET(W)SHIP
/CO CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Word S APPLE/CO
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTOS/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S MICROSOFT(1N)CORP?/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S MARTIAN(W)EQUATOR/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S A/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S CLOSE?(W)LOOK(1W)MARS/TI
/TX TX Text Word S MARTIAN(W)SAMPLE?/TX

1 Not available in all PAPERS files.

2 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

3 Also searchable using /TX.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None AN DIALOG Accession Number
AU= AU Byline Word S AU=(PETER(1N)DELEVETT)
CO= CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Phrase S CO=AMERICA ONLINE?
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=MONDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=HOME
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=MT
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=MACON TELEGRAPH?
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=JUNE
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19970630
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=1
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1997
RG= RG U.S. Region5 Phrase S RG=WEST
SF= SF Special Feature1,6 Phrase S SF=PHOTO
SH= SH Section Heading2 Phrase S SH=A
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=GA
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999
None WD Word Count

4 Newspaper code is also shown following the newspaper name in the Source Information field.

5 Regions are: NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, CENTRAL, and WEST. Region does not display in predefined formats.

6 Special Feature may indicate the presence of PHOTO, GRAPH, DRAWING, CHART, TABLE, DIAGRAM, and/or MAP in the original article, not necessarily online.

7 Includes Newspaper Name, Publication Date, Edition, Section Heading, and Page Number.


LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/LONG Word Count of 1,000 words or more S S8/LONG
/SHORT Word Count of less than 1,000 words S S9/SHORT
/YYYY Publication Year S S2/2002


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
JN, PD, TI SORT S13/ALL/TI
PRINT S5/5/1-24/TI


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. RANK PY S3


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

User-defined formats can be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. TYPE S3/TI,PD/1-5


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
 DIALOGWEB
FORMAT		 RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Full Record except Text
3 Medium Bibliographic Citation and Word Count
4 -- Bibliographic Citation, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count1
5 -- Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count
6 Short Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7 Long Bibliographic Citation and Text
8 Free Title, Indexing, and Word Count
9 Full Full Record
K -- KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 05805028/5
PRINT 00301964/9


Rates [top]

Rates For File: Macon Telegraph[539]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.04
Cost per minute:                   $0.63
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.40    $1.40
     3    $1.40    $1.40
     4    $1.78    $1.78
     5    $1.78    $1.78
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.97    $2.97
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.20    $3.20
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00
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