Highlights The Telegraph Publishing Company archive dates back through 1983. Older stories are currently not available online. While there is no fee to search the Telegraph archive, a fee will be charged to retrieve the full text of any article. Searching and reading stories written in the past three days is still free. Please note: The Telegraph archive contains no photos or graphics. There may be a delay in the availability of today's articles until the full archive is indexed. That delay should be no longer than 24 hours during the week and 48 hours on the weekend. • Archive story fees • Research assistance

Telegraph Publishing Company news and obituary archives can be searched for free. A fee is charged to view the full-text of any article published more than one week ago.

• Subscriber access to The Telegraph of Nashua's archives is for personal use, and may not be used to provide institutional access to multiple users such as in the case of schools or libraries.

• To read the full text of an article published more than 3 days ago, users need to create an archives account. The account includes identity and payment information, which will be kept confidential.

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• The charge for viewing an article will not occur until the article is delivered from our server. If you do not recieve the completed article text, click on it again. You will only be charged once for an article - provided the viewings occur within 24 hours.

• If you have already set up an account but are having trouble using your correct user name and password to retrieve articles, you can send an e-mail to nashuatelegraph@newsbank.com or call 1-800-896-5587 for assistance.

Please note that operators cannot help you find articles within the archive or answer questions about stories that ran in the Telegraph of Nashua

Using Search

• All of the Words: By default, this type of search assumes that spaces between words are treated like the logical and, meaning that all of the terms entered are required to be in all of the items found. A search for Congress economy policy would return all stories that contain all three of these words exactly as they are spelled. See the section on Wild Cards for information on including alternate spellings such as economies or economic.

• Match Any Words: This type of search assumes that spaces between words are treated like the logical or, meaning that results may contain just one of the words or possibly all of the words from your query. The search congress economy policy would return all stories containing the word congress or the word economy or the word policy. Keep in mind that this type of search can produce large search results.

• Match This Exact Phrase: This mode assumes that the space between words requires that the words be adjacent to each other and in the exact order in which you enter them. Use this type of search if you are sure the exact phrase, such as electronic banking, must occur in the stories you are looking for.

• Advanced: Boolean operators such as and, or, not and near can be used anywhere in any type of search. In the list of search types offered, the logic of the boolean connectors is used, but in some cases you do not need to enter the actual connector(s).

Instead of having spaces automatically interpreted as logical connectors, you enter the precise operators you want. You may also combine different operators in one search statement.

• For more explanation of the search syntax, see the sections below on Boolean Operators and Wildcard Characters.

More on Boolean Operators

Boolean operators permit you to create more complex queries and can be combined with Wildcards and Proximity Operators. To formulate a more complex query that combines boolean operators, select Advanced as your Search Type on the search form. See the list below for examples.

More on Wildcards

Wildcard characters can be used to match a set of possible characters at any point in a word.

Controlling Sort Order

• From Newest to Oldest: Will return the found stories in reverse chronological order. Stories that were most recently published will appear at the top of your result list.

• From Oldest to Newest: Will return the found stories in chronological order. Stories that were most recently published will appear at the bottom of your result list.

• By Relevance: Will return the found stories in an order that best matches the search terms you have requested. The more frequently these terms appear in a story, the higher its rank in the result list will be.

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