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Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society is now a FamilySearch Affiliate Library! Visitors to our library have free access to many millions of additional digital images on the FamilySearch website than they can access from home.
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John C. Ackerman, Tazewell County Clerk and Recorder, will present a program about upcoming Tazewell County records digitization projects. More…
Rededication of Tazewell County Lincoln Circuit Marker
Tazewell County Courthouse
Rededication of commemorating marker for Abraham Lincoln's 8th Judicial Circuit stop from 1847-1857. Program will be held at the Courthouse in Pekin. More…
April Meeting
Keith Bonnett and Bob Hoffer of the Capt. Zeally Moss Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution will give a program on the history of the SAR and current projects More…
A Historical Tidbit is a
short Tazewell County related article.
It could be a 5 or 6 page story but could be as simple as a
family photo, letter, or document.
If you have a Tazewell County related article, photo, letter, or document you'd like to share, here's how to make a submission.
Here's the latest ten additions & modifications:
1940's – Pekin Grays Baseball Team
1910's – Cassandra Carpenter Fuhrman
1862 – James Anson Williams
1906 – John G. Heisel & Lillian Heisel
1915 – Sarah Jane Prettyman Smith
1892 – Maria Schrock
1891 – Jacob & Elizabeth Fischer
1908 – Samuel & Daisy Rollings
1900's – James F. Rollings
1850's – William & Phebe Hodgson
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Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society!
The Society was established in 1978 to "stimulate interest; to collect, preserve, and safeguard records; and to provide related educational services for the purpose of increasing and enriching public knowledge of our heritage."
Our library is staffed with one or more trained volunteer genealogists. Our collection currently contains almost 13,000 volumes.
Unexpected closings can occur but are very rare (usually due to inclement weather and, recently, worldwide pandemics) – if in doubt, call us at 309 477-3044 before leaving home. If you are coming through town and can't stop by during our normal hours, email us in advance and we'll try to make arrangements to meet you at the library.
Our meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm. Our monthly meeting starts with a one hour presentation about a genealogical or historical subject followed by a short business meeting. The public is welcome to attend any of our meetings/presentations.
A good way to get a general idea of what's available here on tcghs.org is to review our website map. Thanks for stopping by!
Terri Lynn Nuts & Candies Are Available!
Our fall Terri Lynn premium nuts and candies orders have arrived at the library. We ask you to stop by and pick up your order by November 30.
We do have some available stock of some of the more popular items while they last. Stop by, call the society, or drop us an email for details of what is still available.
Membership Dues are Changing!
TCGHS dues have not been raised since 2006. Unfortunately, many of the the society's expenses (paper, postage, utilities, etc.) have doubled (sometimes tripled) in the last 15 years.
Reluctantly, the membership voted at the August meeting to increase dues starting in 2022 as follows:
Regular Family Charter Charter Family
$25 $28 $20 $25
Any new member joining after September 30th will be enrolled as a 2022 member.
We thank you for your past support!
January 2022 Mystery Photo Posted!
Unfortunately, we have many photographs in our collection that are undated with unnamed persons taken at an unknown location. We have dubbed these as our Mystery Photo Collection
We publish one or more photographs each month in The Monthly newsletter and on our website. All additional details we have accompany each photo. Click on photo to see it full-size!
Here's the mystery photo from the January 2022 issue of The Monthly:
Customers line up to purchase basketball tournament tickets at Central Book & Toy Store, 345 Court, Pekin. What year? Early 1960s?
Please contact us even if you are not 100% sure of your information—sometimes a tiny tidbit can lead to big results! Thanks for your help!
Also, take a look at the Mystery Photos we have posted over the past several months! Perhaps you can identify one of them.
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Green Valley Sesquicentennial Book!
Updated December 2021!
The Green Valley Sesquicentennial Book Committee has begun collecting information for a new book celebrating the One Hundred and Fifty Year Anniversary of Green Valley including bothnMalone and Sand Prairie Townships. A rich history of settlement, farming, and family history comes from these two townships.
The plan is to bring forward history from the 125th Celebration Book of Green Valley to the present 150th Celebration. The 125th Celebration was very thorough and detailed and covered a lot of the history of the community. [There's still a few of the 125th Celebration Book available!]
The 150th year book will include the Green Valley Sesquicentennial Celebration of August 2022 so it will not be published until after August 2022. There will be additional topics that haven't been shared before as well as updating of information in the former Green Valley histories. The Committee is asking for current and former Green Valley citizens to submit articles that "Enhance the History of Green Valley Through Your Family Story".
Also, a history of the street names and older homes in the original city is planned. The Committee is asking for any information people have on these two topics. If you know the history of ownership of your home, the committee would like you to share any information on original owners as well as any additions and changes to the home.
Elder and former residents of Green Valley are being interviewed. So far, a centenarian as well as a number of 80+ and 90+ year-olds are contributing their memories and information about growing up in the Green Valley area.
Information and documents are being gathered about the long history of the Grain Elevators and Railroad on the east side of Green Valley. The first Barker Grain was built around 1896 by James Robert Barker who was one of the last survivors of the Civil War in Illinois. At the time of his death in 1940, he lived on the corner of Main and Barker Streets. He is buried across the northwest border of Malone Township in Langston Cemetery in Mason County.
The Orphan Train will be a new topic in the book. The Orphan Train was formed to move orphaned children from the New York area west to other locations as adoptees, farm labor, or indentured servants. Illinois was one of the prime destinations of the Orphan Train.
Cyrus Chase, postmaster of Belfami (northwest corner of Malone Township) was one of the "conductors" of aiding children to Illinois. Mr. Chase was found in 1856 records of the New York Asylum who was sending the children west.
The 1860 census shows five extra children living in the Chase home. This story will be further detailed in the book. Anyone who has information about "conductors" or children that came to this area on the Orphan train are asked to submit information to the book committee.
If you have additional contributions or questions, the Sesquicentennial Book Committee of Green Valley may be contacted at sesquicentennial150gv@gmail.com
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Happytown Road community brings rural Mainers together
Many people in the vicinity of the Happytown Road believe the road connects families that are interested in a homesteading lifestyle. They have formed friendships and a new kind of community that is loosely connected by the rural road. The Happytown Road, only partially paved, starts near Dedham and goes through Orland and Ellsworth.
Kristin Beauchamp (center) helps her son Wyatt Beauchamp, 6, slice bread as her daughter, Stephanie Norman-Beauchamp, 16, brings tea at the Beauchamp's Lone Spruce Farm in Dedham. The Beauchamps are one of the families that feels connected to a community by the Happytown road. The rural road, only partially paved, starts near Dedham and goes through Orland and Ellsworth. The area attracted a diverse group of people who are interested in the homesteading lifestyle. Wyatt wears a helmet because he has epilepsy.
Kristin Beauchamp (left) helps her daughter Ruby Beauchamp, 4, as she carries eggs from the chicken coop at the Beauchamp's Lone Spruce Farm in Dedham. They are among the families that feel connected by the Happytown Road. The area has attracted a diverse group of people with similar interests who have formed friendships and a new kind of community loosely connected by the rural road. On the right is Molly Mercer, a friend of the family.
Shawn Mercer feeds pigs at the Nancy Place Homestead in Orland. The Mercers raise pigs for several people in the community, with each family contributing food and labor. The Mercers are one of the families that feels connected by the Happytown Road. The area has attracted a diverse group of people with similar interests, who have formed friendships and a new kind of community loosely connected by the rural road.
Shawn Mercer spreads sand in the driveway at the Nancy Place Homestead & Hostel in Orland. The Mercers are among the families interested in a homesteading lifestyle that feel connected by the Happytown Road. The area has attracted a diverse group of people with similar interests, who have formed friendships and a new kind of community loosely connected by the rural road.
Molly Mercer (left) and Kristin Beauchamp walk toward the Bald Mountain Community Center in Orland. The community center is one of the links that connects people with similar interests in the area. They are among the families that are interested in a homesteading lifestyle, and feel their communities are connected by the Happytown Road.
Kristin Beauchamp (left), Molly Mercer (center) and her husband, Shawn Mercer, at the Mercer's Orland home. They are among the families that feel connected by the Happytown Road. The area attracted a diverse group of people with similar interests who have formed friendships and a new kind of community loosely connected by the rural road. The Happytown Road, only partially paved, starts near Dedham and goes through Orland and Ellsworth.
By Abigail Curtis, BDN Staff • February 27, 2017 6:50 am
ORLAND, Maine — February can be a hard month to travel down Maine's rural roads, as winter's long slog pocks them with potholes and renders them treacherous and slick because of snow and ice.
The Happytown Road, which meanders through a quiet corner of Hancock County, looks no different than other rural Maine routes this time of year. But it is different, according to the people who live on it or near it and who have built a strong, resilient community centered on their road. The road passes through Ellsworth and Orland, but some people from Dedham and Bucksport also feel they belong to the Happytown community.
"We came up here to find an old house and turn it into a farm," Kristin Beauchamp of Lone Spruce Farm in Dedham said of her family's move to Maine from New Jersey nearly two years ago. "We were beyond blessed by the area, by the people surrounding us and the open arms. It's not something that I've experienced anywhere else."
Maine is a special place, according to lots of folks who were born here or who moved here. Plenty of Mainers know they live in unique places where they share their geography with neighbors brought together by chance or by choice. For Happytown Road residents, their home is special because even though they may live far apart from neighbors — the community spreads for miles and includes folks who live in four different towns — they come together often to collaborate on projects, to hold monthly potlucks and open mic nights and to do work parties. They've even transformed an old grange hall into a community center that is serving as the hub of the community.
Happytown Road is home to farmers, homesteaders, teachers, homeschoolers, musicians, carpenters and even a librarian. For these folks, living in rural Maine is not synonymous with living in seclusion or isolation.
"It can be lonely, being that far out there, especially if you have young kids," Brook Ewing Minner, who moved to Happytown Road in 2003, said. "The community here feels sort of rare. It's really that old-fashioned feel of what a neighbor is. If you need something, we'll help you. We've asked, and we've helped. It can be hard to get to know people in New England, where people are just reserved. Having a community that feels accessible and easy has been really life-changing."
Minner, originally from Arizona, is a librarian by trade. When she and her husband, Mark Eastman, were building their home on the Ellsworth end of the Happytown Road, she got curious about the history of the area and delved into research. She learned that Happytown Road originally was settled in the mid-19th century by a group of families that came from Mount Desert Island.
"They were a religious sect that was different," she said. "The 'Happy' was around finding God."
The community grew until the 1930s or thereabouts, she said. At that time, there were many families who lived along the road. Happytown had a school, a church and a separate grange hall. But by the 1930s, residents had started to leave for cities, where they took jobs in factories, Minner learned.
"That more agrarian way of life was less attractive," she said. "I think that happened to a lot of tiny places."
Houses were abandoned, farmland became overgrown and overtaken by the forest, and by the 1950s, no one remained. Then one Happytown Road native returned after years of living away and working at a mill.
"He was quite literally the only person for decades," Minner said. "When the back-to-the-landers showed up in the 1970s, there was this one guy there. He was kind of a resource for the people who came."
And come they did, reclaiming fields from the forest and building homes where old farms used to be. By the time Minner and Eastman got there in the summer of 2003 to camp on their land while they built their house, their neighbors met them with open arms, offers of showers, extension cords for their camper and more. It was hospitality that Minner said her family was glad to reciprocate.
"In a way, if people choose to live so far out, away from towns, it generally draws the same kind of people," she said. "There's some shared values that I think made it easy to connect."
One of the best places to connect with their neighbors has been the Bald Mountain Community Center, an old white building that formerly was known as the Victory Grange. Members of the grange, which long served as a focal point for the farming community, decided in 2013 to disband their 90-plus-year-old organization. The building ended up being put on the market and was bought by Gaylord Wood Jr., a summer resident who saw that the structure still had value to the community. He turned it into the nonprofit community center, which neighbors describe as an amazing resource that is continuing to evolve.
"It's a collaborative process," Molly Mercer of the Nancy Place Homestead in Orland said. "There's not established meetings. But it's a hub where people of different philosophies can come together to break bread, which is huge."
Since it began, the community center also hosted yoga classes, kids activities, a monthly open mic night and a wedding, and the goal is to make it a self-sustaining resource. Neighbors have organized several work parties, bringing food, tools and energy enough to get some big projects done. Last fall, for a Thanksgiving gathering, 70 people came to the simple, wood-heated building and filled it with food and conversation. As was the case at dinner tables around America, nobody talked politics, but instead stuck to topics that were less divisive and closer to home.
"It was full, and it was happy," Beauchamp said. "Full of food and laughter."
Farms and homesteads on or near the Happytown Road also are continuing to evolve, just like the community center. Last summer, Mercer, Beauchamp and two other farmers joined forces to fill a stall at the Bucksport Farmers' Market, calling it the Four Friends Farm. They sold vegetables, flowers and crafts and had "the prettiest booth there," according to Mercer. Last fall, several families began doing a work exchange, where each family benefited from the labor of the others for one full day. Projects done during the work exchange days include harvesting gardens, building perennial garden beds, moving manure piles, pressing apple cider, even putting in a road.
For Beauchamp, who used to live on a 1-acre parcel in New Jersey, living in rural Maine just feels right. Back in New Jersey, it took her seven years to meet her next-door neighbor, but that certainly hasn't been the case in the Happytown Road community.
"Now I feel at home. Now I feel at ease," she said.
For Mercer, being part of the Happytown Road community means having a sense of belonging and cooperation. And that's not something she ever wants to take for granted.
"Community doesn't just happen," she said. "We really value it, so we nurture it."
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In quarter three of 2018/19, Bucks County Council (BCC) failed to hit the 70 per cent target for the number of adult social care clients receiving an annual review – with only 45.7 per cent assessed.
Annual reviews help social workers "understand how things are working" with adult social care clients and "pick up any issues".
During a meeting of BCC's cabinet this week, director of social care, Gill Quinton, blamed the low figures on a "significant shortage" of social workers who carry out the assessments.
However, she added performance has "improved dramatically" – as now 62 per cent of clients are having an annual review, compared to the previous quarter.
Ms Quinton said: "We have got significant shortage in social workers who carry out these assessments and that has had an impact on conducting the reviews.
"We are very dependent on trying to bring in agency staff and sometimes that's not possible it has left us with gaps and that does impact in this area.
Leader of BCC, Martin Tett, raised concerns that failures to carry out annual reviews could mean that the "quality of life and wellbeing" of clients may be affected.
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Janice Raymond takes on gender identity: Doublethink reviewed by Claire Heuchan
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As mad as a Hatter
As mad as a Hatter : Phrases
Completely mad. This is now commonly understood to mean crazy, although the original meaning is unclear and may have meant annoyed.
Mercury used to be used in the making of hats. This was known to have affected the nervous systems of hatters, causing them to tremble and appear insane. A neurotoxicologist correspondent informs me that "Mercury exposure can cause aggressiveness, mood swings, and anti-social behaviour.", so that derivation is certainly plausible - although there's only that circumstantial evidence to support it.
The use of mercury compounds in 19th century hat making and the resulting effects are well-established - mercury poisoning is still known today as 'Mad Hatter's disease'. That could be enough to convince us that this is the source of the phrase. The circumstantial evidence is rather against the millinery origin though and, beyond the fact that hatters often suffered trembling fits, there's little to link hat making to the coining of 'as mad as a hatter'.
The earliest known printed citation of the phrase that I know of is from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January-June 1829. It appears in a section of the magazine headed Noctes Ambrocianæ. No. XL1V, in a fictional conversation between a group of characters that wouldn't have been out of place in Wonderland:
NORTH: Many years - I was Sultan of Bello for a long period, until dethroned by an act of the grossest injustice ; but I intend to expose the traitorous conspirators to the indignation of an outraged world.
TICKLER (aside to SHEPHERD.): He's raving.
SHEPHERD (to TICKLER.): Dementit.
ODOHERTY (to both.): Mad as a hatter. Hand me a segar.
The expression appears again (twice) soon afterwards, in a book by the Canadian author Thomas Haliburton - The clockmaker; or the sayings and doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, 1835:
"And with that he turned right round, and sat down to his map and never said another word, lookin' as mad as a hatter the whole blessed time."
"Father he larfed out like any thing; I thought he would never stop - and sister Sall got right up and walked out of the room, as mad as a hatter. Says she, Sam, I do believe you are a born fool, I vow."
There's no explanation of the phrase in Haliburton's book to help us infer any sort of derivation - there's certainly no mention of poisoning or anything else to relate it to the practice of hat making.
There is also a suggestion that the phrase was originally 'as mad as an adder', i.e. a viper. That corresponds with the US expression 'as mad as a cut snake'. I can find no example of 'as mad as an adder' that predates the above citations though.
Another possible explanation is from New Zealand, in the name hatter that was given to miners who work alone. Writing in 1889, E. Wakefield, in New Zealand after 50 Years:
"Miners who work alone are called 'hatters', one explanation of the term being that they frequently go mad from the solitude of their claim away in the bush, exemplifying the proverb 'As mad as a hatter'."
That's more than fifty years after the first printed and so seems unlikely to be the origin. It's more likely that antipodean miners were called hatters because they were mad than the other way about.
Whilst not being the source of the phrase, we can't mention 'as mad as a hatter' and leave out Lewis Carroll. His 'Hatter' character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is of course the best-known mad hatter of them all. The Hatter is not actually described as mad in the story - merely a participant at 'a mad tea-party' - although he can hardly be called sane.
It would also be remiss to leave out the fact that mercury, which we now know to be highly toxic, was used in the manufacture of hats. Hatters commonly suffered from 'hatter's shakes', a form of nerve damage which gave symptoms similar to Parkinson's Disease and which is still known today as 'Mad Hatter's Syndrome'. A neurotoxicologist correspondent of mine has put forward the view that hatters could have been mad in either or both of the 'angry' or 'insane' senses. He states that "Mercury exposure can cause aggressiveness, mood swings, and anti-social behaviour. It is therefore likely that the mercury in hat making did lead to 'mad' hatters both in terms of rationality and plain old grumpiness."
Carroll may have taken his inspiration for the Mad Hatter from the known unusual behaviour of hatters and also from Theophilus Carter, who was an Oxford cabinet maker and furniture dealer with a reputation for eccentric behaviour. The cap, or in Carter's case the top hat, certainly fits. He was something of a 'mad inventor' and came up with the alarm-clock bed, which woke people by tipping the bed over. Carroll would have been familiar with the sight of Carter, in full top hat, outside his shop at 48 High Street, Oxford, where he lived in the 1850s - during the time that Carroll was an Oxford don.
Similes of the form 'as x as y' are extremely commonplace in English. They almost invariably link an object with a property that it is well-known to possess, e.g. 'as white as snow', 'as slippery as an eel' etc. Whoever coined this term would certainly have had reason to associate hatters with madness. Whether they meant hatters or adders and considered them to be annoyed or crazy, we don't know. Until we do, the derivation of 'as mad as a hatter' remains uncertain.
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Q: Defining const static that needs setting up at runtime I'm making use of a class with a few utilities defined as static methods eg.
QDate SSIMUtils::ConvertSSIMDate(QString s) {
    QDate rtnDt;
    //...conversion code
    return rtnDt;
}

I would like to define a few constants in this class eg. LOW_DATE and was thinking of putting in something like
const static QDate LOW_DATE; // Need to set this somewhere to 1/1/1970

Unfortunately, I can't define it pre-compile time like I would say an int eg.
const static int SSIMUtils::myI = 4;

because it requires the use of a setDate method.
My question is how should I define a static const that I need to set up codewise, as the constant requires initialisation. I'd been thinking of defining it in the .h file eg.
const static QDate LOW_DATE;

then in the .cpp file, at the top, doing something like
SSIMUtils::LOW_DATE.setDate(1970,1,1);

But this is syntactically incorrect. What I'd ultimately like to do is use this constant in other classes eg.
if (myQDate.compare(SSIMUtils::LOW_DATE)==0) {
    // do something.
}

What's the right way to set up a constant value in a static class that you need to adjust at run time ie. like a constructor?

A: As I mentioned in a comment, QDate has a constructor equivalent to setDate(), which allows for initialisation of a 'const' object.
You must declare your static constant the following way:
myclass.h:
#include <QDate>

class myclass {
public:
    const static QDate CONST_DATE;
};

myclass.cpp:
#include "myclass.h"

const QDate myclass::CONST_DATE(1970, 1, 1);

I tested this using a std::string instead of a QDate (no QT available right now), and it works just as you want.

A: It depends on where the necessary information for the
initialization comes, or rather, when it is available.  If it's
always available, and the type supports copy, then you can
just write a function which returns the initialized type:
namespace {
MyType getInitialized()
{
    MyType results;
    //  ...
    return results;
}
}

static MyType const lowDate( getInitialized() );

If it doesn't support copy, you can derive from it, providing
a specialized constructor:
class MyTypeInitialized : public MyType
{
public:
    MyTypeInitialized()
    {
        //  ...
    }
};
MyTypeInitialized lowDate;

This has the disadvantage of masking the true type from the
client code, but otherwise works well.
If the information isn't available until later; e.g. it depends
on command line arguments, then you may have to use a variant of
the singleton idiom, where you have two instance functions:
one of which takes the necessary arguments for initialization,
and must be called first.  (Or that may even be overkill; it
might be sufficient to have a global std::unique_ptr<MyType
const> lowDate;, and initialize that with an object newed at
the start of main.  The main different is in the client
syntax.)

A: You cannot change something declared constant at run-time, by definition.
The closest you can get to run-time constant initialization is to initialize in a class'
constructor initializer list:
SomeClass(int constantValue) :
    myConstant(constantValue)
{
...
}

Given that you are building a static class, you are probably not constructing an object though. You can always resort to having a setter method which only allows setting the value once (in which case you can not declare the field const, obviously).

A: As the name implies, it is a constant, it cannot (should not) be changed once initialised. The only place that you can assign a value to a constant member variable is in the constructor (that is, without weird const_casts).

A: Your QDate may be trivial to construct -- using a static constant may not be better than creating a new date for that constant each time the function is called.
In the interest of answering the question, let's assume it is complex to construct and that a static constant is best idea. You can simply write:
QDate SSIMUtils::ConvertSSIMDate(QString s) {
    static const QDate LOW_DATE( /* ...construct it... */ );
    QDate rtnDt;
    //...conversion code
    return rtnDt;
}

Note: Looks like SirDarius explained how you can construct this type directly, without an intermediate (+1), although a function-local static constant is generally much better than a global constant because global constants lead to some very tough initialization problems in C++.
This creates a function local static which will be initialized once, and in a thread safe manner before it is read and when the function is called.
If the instance cannot be constructed easily, it helps at times to initialize using the copy constructor and then creating an accessory function:
QDate SSIMUtils::ConvertSSIMDate(QString s) {
    struct F { static QDate Low() { return ...; } };
    static const QDate LOW_DATE(F::Low()); // << initialize the constant using the copy ctor
    QDate rtnDt;
    //...conversion code
    return rtnDt;
}

So the short approach using the construction provided by SirDarius using a function-local-static is:
QDate SSIMUtils::ConvertSSIMDate(QString s) {
    static const QDate LOW_DATE(1970, 1, 1);
    QDate rtnDt;
    //...conversion code
    return rtnDt;
}

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Q: caption-justification in subtable (subfig package) I am using the \begin{table} \subtable[] \subtable[] \end{table} on two related tables, that are tiled horizontally(one above the other). The problem is that I wish the (sub) captions (a) and (b) to be wider than the figures (take the whole page width), and NOT like they are now (see image). I would like the subcaption to be as wide as the page. How do I set up the caption?
Thanks!
Michael

Here is the relevant extract:
%------------------------------------------------%

\documentclass[review,review,12pt]{elsarticle}

\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage[justification=centering]{caption}
\usepackage{subfig}% Support for small, `sub' figures and tables

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Use of added entries by agencies \label{addedEntriesAgencies}}

\subtable[Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books cataloged by both agencies) - total occurrences of sub-fields]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
BIBBI    & 5844      & 4574       &  1272 & 775\\
Bokbasen & 5632 & 5623 & 0 & 693\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}

\subtable[Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books
cataloged by both agencies) - Records with at least one occurrence of sub-field]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency    & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
  BIBBI    & 3354      & 3262       &  179     &    571\\
Bokbasen   & 3667      & 3664       &   0         & 417\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{table}
\end{document}

%------------------------------------------------------------------%

A: Here are three different versions of your two subtables:
For the first version, I have used \captionsetup[subfloat]{width=\textwidth} in order to make the subtable's captions use the whole width instead of just the width of the corresponding subtable.
In the second example, I have moved repeated information from the subtable's captions to the main caption.

In the third table, I have merged both subtables into a single table to save some space. I have also used the booktabs package for the horizontal lines and removed all vertical lines:
\documentclass[review,review,12pt]{elsarticle}

\usepackage{subfig}
\captionsetup[subfloat]{width=\textwidth} % To use the full width of the page instead of the width of the corresponding subtable.

% only used for last example
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{makecell}
\renewcommand{\theadfont}{\normalsize}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\centering

\caption{Use of added entries by agencies \label{addedEntriesAgencies}}

\subfloat[Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books cataloged by both agencies) - total occurrences of sub-fields]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
BIBBI    & 5844      & 4574       &  1272 & 775\\
Bokbasen & 5632 & 5623 & 0 & 693\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}

\subfloat[Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books
cataloged by both agencies) - Records with at least one occurrence of sub-field]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency    & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
  BIBBI    & 3354      & 3262       &  179     &    571\\
Bokbasen   & 3667      & 3664       &   0         & 417\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Use of added entries by agencies -- Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books cataloged by both agencies) \label{addedEntriesAgencies}}

\subfloat[total occurrences of sub-fields]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
BIBBI    & 5844      & 4574       &  1272 & 775\\
Bokbasen & 5632 & 5623 & 0 & 693\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}

\subfloat[Records with at least one occurrence of sub-field]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency    & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
  BIBBI    & 3354      & 3262       &  179     &    571\\
Bokbasen   & 3667      & 3664       &   0         & 417\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
\centering
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{4pt}
\caption{Use of added entries by agencies -- Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books cataloged by both agencies) \label{addedEntriesAgencies}}
\begin{tabular}{l*{8}{r}}
\toprule
& \multicolumn{4}{l}{\small a) total occurrences of sub-fields} & \multicolumn{4}{p{5cm}}{\small b) Records with at least one occurrence of sub-field}\\
\cmidrule(r){2-5} \cmidrule(l){6-9}
Agency   & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$ & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$ \\ \midrule
BIBBI    & 5844      & 4574       &  1272 & 775 & 3354      & 3262       &  179     &    571\\
Bokbasen & 5632 & 5623 & 0 & 693 & 3667      & 3664       &   0         & 417\\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
\documentclass[review,review,12pt]{elsarticle}

\usepackage{subfig}
\captionsetup[subfloat]{width=\textwidth} % To use the full width of the page instead of the width of the corresponding subtable.

% only used for ast example
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{makecell}
\renewcommand{\theadfont}{\normalsize}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\centering

\caption{Use of added entries by agencies \label{addedEntriesAgencies}}

\subfloat[Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books cataloged by both agencies) - total occurrences of sub-fields]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
BIBBI    & 5844      & 4574       &  1272 & 775\\
Bokbasen & 5632 & 5623 & 0 & 693\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}

\subfloat[Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books
cataloged by both agencies) - Records with at least one occurrence of sub-field]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency    & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
  BIBBI    & 3354      & 3262       &  179     &    571\\
Bokbasen   & 3667      & 3664       &   0         & 417\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Use of added entries by agencies -- Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books cataloged by both agencies) \label{addedEntriesAgencies}}

\subfloat[total occurrences of sub-fields]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
BIBBI    & 5844      & 4574       &  1272 & 775\\
Bokbasen & 5632 & 5623 & 0 & 693\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}

\subfloat[Records with at least one occurrence of sub-field]{
\begin{tabular}{|| c | c | c | c | c || }
\hline
 Agency    & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$\\ \hline
  BIBBI    & 3354      & 3262       &  179     &    571\\
Bokbasen   & 3667      & 3664       &   0         & 417\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
\centering
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{4pt}
\caption{Use of added entries by agencies -- Difference in registering added entries between agencies (across 5815 books cataloged by both agencies) \label{addedEntriesAgencies}}
\begin{tabular}{l*{8}{r}}
\toprule
& \multicolumn{4}{l}{\small a) total occurrences of sub-fields} & \multicolumn{4}{p{5cm}}{\small b) Records with at least one occurrence of sub-field}\\
\cmidrule(r){2-5} \cmidrule(l){6-9}
Agency   & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$ & 700 $\$a$ & 700 $\$e$  & 700 $\$t$ & 740 $\$a$ \\ \midrule
BIBBI    & 5844      & 4574       &  1272 & 775 & 3354      & 3262       &  179     &    571\\
Bokbasen & 5632 & 5623 & 0 & 693 & 3667      & 3664       &   0         & 417\\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}


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Life Metal is the most powerful Sunn O))) LP in ten years
By Evan Lilly / 23 April 2019, 12:36 BST
Life Metal
Release date: 26 April 2019
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Sunn O)))'s latest studio excursion finds the duo harnessing a more back-to-basics mentality, all the while challenging themselves to reset what essentially fueled their beginning phase of a terror-driven hellscape of feedback and drone.
Life Metal, their eighth LP, and Steve Albini-produced follow-up to 2015's Kannon, consists of four tracks, totalling nearly seventy minutes of noise. While Life Metal fails to serve as much of a surprise, the power that encapsulates these tracks is sinister, and just sometimes, heavenly.
Sunn O))) continue to delve into the darkest regions of the underworld, paralyzing their listeners with fear, discomfort, and even at times, rumination. Nevertheless, Life Metal holds true to what we've come to love about the drone lords over time. Standing as their most powerful LP since Monoliths & Dimensions, Steven O'Malley and Greg Anderson coax us in…once encumbered by their hexing oeuvre, there's no choice but to succumb to their core-rattling measures.
Sunn O))) spent mid-summer of 2018 in Chicago at Electrical Audio with Albini recording Life Metal and their yet-to-be released ninth LP, Pyroclasts. They also released a handful of reissues: (Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998, White1, and White2) – but while these releases were primed for their diehard fanbase, Life Metal is their first studio LP in four years. Whereas Kannon explored meditative tapestries alongside Sunn O)))'s cataclysmic touchstones, Life Metal serves to show O'Malley and Anderson in a brighter headspace, creating their version of transcendental celebration while utilizing techniques and know-how for transforming the genre of metal and how it's perceived. There's no denying the full-on assault that course throughout these tracks. LP opener, "Between Sleipnir's Breaths" is as wicked as ever, its intro taken from Bathory's Blood Fire Death LP. It sounds close to a haunted eve where death is imminent, horses are heard galloping into war. But seconds in, the sample cuts and we're met with Sunn O)))'s signature, colossal guitars.
But such as Life Metal's layout being a straightforward one, O'Malley and Anderson hint at metamorphoses throughout. Icelandic cellist, Hildur Guðnadóttir, recites a ghostly narrative on "Between Sleipnir's Breaths", one that crawls unhurriedly throughout. Not for the first time, Sunn O)))'s sheer volume alongside their means to stretch a track until it's ready to snap can be mind-bending. "Troubled Air" has similar construction, rippling with massive, suffocating chord varieties… stuff that can swallow you whole, but somehow, through its meditative havoc, the glimmering of bells manages to lure you back to a state of consciousness.
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"Novae", the twenty-five minute plus monolith, closes us out – sounding like what could be a Sleep rehearsal in its beginning, its midpoint begins to gingerly phase out, but before doing so is replaced with string contributions courtesy of Guðnadóttir, thus making the track one of Sunn O)))'s quietest reflections. But while "Novae" takes its time to wrap up, it gives us the best of both ends of what Sunn O))) can achieve. As Guðnadóttir's cello falls in line between a Stars of the Lid or even a Godspeed You! Black Emperor hybrid, the track is met again with Sunn O)))'s assault before abruptly cutting out.
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A cult classic from the 1980s that began originally as an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981, do you know the relationship between Mario and Donkey Kong?
The original gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping over obstacles. In the game, Jumpman (now known as Mario) must rescue a damsel in distress, Lady (now known as Pauline), from a giant ape named Donkey Kong!
Donkey Kong moved on to have a cult following on his own, and here you have, the famous handheld version most kids of the 1980s got to play with.
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