Dear PPast
The reporting is definetly totally different
I am researching schools, Advertiser has totally new indepth reporting,
When it comes to early family like CORNES
the first 50 hits - only 2 are for Thames Star
Now this includes a fatal accident
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE CENTRAL ITALY MINE.
Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 4 May 1874, Page 3
Looking at Thames Star
Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1667, 4 May 1874, Page 2
They have recorded Clements name as C D CORNS
Advertiser had CORNES
I can already see lots of early businesses that are advertising in Advertiser that i have not seen before
including Edmund Cornes who is starting a private school
Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1900, 23 November 1874, Page 2
We had already known this in terms of BMD notices..families place notices in one or the other..but not both
So yes I think well and truly there are real benefits to having two newspapers in the one location - they were probably in competition with one another and what they advertise and write seems to support this.
Bye
Althea
PS. Another reason for this is the fact that for Thames Star there were alot of issues missing/unavailable - no issues for 1876. Now The Thames Advertiser has all this year, this is going to be major for researchers. Part of a key decade of depression and improvements, not previously available